Rhinoceros is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RHINOCEROS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a large heavy ungulate mammal of the perissodactyl family Rhinocerotidae, also RHINOCEROT, RHINOCEROTE
• a large, heavily built plant-eating mammal with one or two horns on the nose and thick folded skin, native to Africa and southern Asia. All kinds have become endangered through hunting.
• Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidae, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.
• massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
• a large heavy ungulate mammal of the perissodactyl family Rhinocerotidae
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• any of a family (Rhinocerotidae) of large heavyset herbivorous perissodactyl mammals of Africa and Asia that have one or two upright keratinous horns on the snout and thick gray to brown skin with little hair

Words related to RHINOCEROS

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Words that contain RHINOCEROS

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How to use RHINOCEROS in a sentence

• In this same island we saw the rhinoceros, an animal which is smaller than the elephant and larger than the buffalo.
• The rhinoceros is much smaller than the elephant, and resembles the buffalo from the neck downwards, and excels all other creatures in extraordinary strength.
• The elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, hippopotamus, lion, and various others are hunted in Caffraria with great spirit by the natives.
• In later times a lashing with a strap of rhinoceros hide was substituted for burning.
• The embers of the wood are then removed, the leg or foot of the rhinoceros introduced, and the door closed up with heated clay and embers.
• God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.
• Somewhat sluggish and dull, at times, is the rhinoceros, and it is in his careless, listless moods that he is liable to fall a victim.
• To the rhinoceros-bird the rhinoceros is all there is of earth.
• Hence it seems not unlikely that the elephant, the hippopotamus, the rhinoceros, and the buffalo must go.
• They have a language quite peculiar to themselves, and they eat promiscuously whatever the woods afford, as deer, elephant, rhinoceros, wild hog, snakes, or monkeys.
• Perhaps, in her heart of hearts, she was doubtful of her power to make a silk purse out of rhinoceros hide.
• A rhinoceros was likewise exhibited on this occasion for the first time.
• The rhinoceros is supposed to be a very long-lived animal.
• The elephants at first sight bolted, but were brought back by considerable exertion, and the rhinoceros was made fast to one by a rope.
• In this island is also found the rhinoceros, an animal less than the elephant but larger than the buffalo.
• He was nearly the size of our present-day rhinoceros.
• On seeing Rustem the rhinoceros retreated, and the elephant was led back.
• If it may be said reverently, the church, standing on comparatively a hill, not only lifts its horn on high, but one like that of a rhinoceros, considerably curved.
• No matter if that man believed he had done no wrong, he would have needed a rhinoceros hide not to have felt this silence.
• To the end of a rod of rhinoceros horn about two feet long I affixed a knob of lead weighing two pounds.
• I saw a rhinoceros there, just such a one as Harry Clerberg had formerly showed me.
• This is well shown in the drawings given by Owen of the bones of the leg of the horse, ox, and rhinoceros.
• The reason for its attacking us might easily be accounted for on the supposition of an ugly disposition such as that which the fierce and stupid rhinoceros of Africa possesses.
• But he has quite equally profound doubts as to whether the tree he is looking at is a tree and not a rhinoceros.
• The next to attempt their capture were the elephant and the rhinoceros.
• She dreamed she heard lions all the night long, and was sure a rhinoceros could get in at the window.
• It was full of game of all sorts, including the wild buffalo, rhinoceros, tiger, leopard, wild hog, deer, and the trees and bushes were as full of monkeys as they could swarm.

Similar words containing RHINOCERO without suffix s

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