rhinocerine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of rhinoceroses.
Example Sentences
- "Regarding us warily, the creature turned its rhinocerine head in our direction."
- "The above appear to have been the only Rhinocerine remains discovered at Oreston..."
- "The old Irish pig had long legs, large, erect ears, an attenuated snout and a light body; he was a roaming, restless brute, with porcupine bristles on his back, a hide of rhinocerine thickness and an aspect grim as a wolf."
- "Luckily the saddlebum, following the dictates of his wit if not his predilection, snatched a fan out of his gun belt, leaned forward simpering, and tapped the enraged woman on her rhinocerine upper arm."
- "...to modern eyes, it is startling to see both Megalosaurus and Iguanodon depicted as extremely massive quadrupeds and the latter genus with a sharp, nasal horn. These errors were not unreasonable; rhinocerine lizards were well known to Owen (and indeed, several genera of rhinocerine dinosaurs were discovered subsequently), whereas there were no living parallels to what was, in truth, Iguanodon's spike-like thumb."
- "Robert Bakker first challenged the conventional view that ceratopsians' front limbs sprawled, with his own idea that their front limbs had an elephantine or rhinocerine posture."
Etymology
From rhinoceros + -ine.
Inflected Forms
more rhinocerine (comparative)
most rhinocerine (superlative)