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merck's rhinoceros

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.69 in modern English

Syllables
mer-ck-'s rhinoceros
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extinct rhinoceros of species †Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis, living in Eurasia during the Pleistocene.

Etymology

Named after Carl Heinrich Merck, who gave the initial name to the species in 1784 as Rhinoceros incisivus. The widely used junior synonym of the species Rhinoceros mercki dates from 1841, by Johann Jakob Kaup.

Inflected Forms

Merck's rhinoceroses (plural)

Synonyms

forest rhinoceros forest rhino Merck's rhino

Questions

What does merck's rhinoceros mean?
An extinct rhinoceros of species †Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis, living in Eurasia during the Pleistocene.
Where does merck's rhinoceros come from?
Named after Carl Heinrich Merck, who gave the initial name to the species in 1784 as Rhinoceros incisivus. The widely used junior synonym of the species Rhinoceros mercki dates from 1841, by Johann Jakob Kaup.

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