rhinoceros的意思

rhinoceros

英式音标[raɪ'nɑsərəs]
美式英标[raɪ'nɒs(ə)rəs]

基本解释

n. [脊椎] 犀牛

rhinoceros 犀牛

rhin,鼻子，-cer,角，词源同 horn.因这种动物鼻子如角而得名。

rhinoceros: rhinoceros: [13] Rhinoceros means literally ‘nose-horn’. The term was coined in Greek from rhīno-, the stem form of rhīs ‘nose’, and kéras ‘horn’ (a distant relative of English horn). Greek rhīnókerōs reached English via Latin rhīnocerōs. The abbreviated form rhino is first recorded in the 1880s.
=> antirrhinum, horn, keratin
rhinoceros (n.): c. 1300, from Latin rhinoceros, from Greek rhinokeros, literally "nose-horned," from rhinos "nose" (a word of unknown origin) + keras "horn" (see kerato-). Related: Rhinocerotic.
What is the plural of rhinoceros? ... Well, Liddell and Scott seem to authorize 'rhinocerotes,' which is pedantic, but 'rhinoceroses' is not euphonious. [Sir Charles Eliot, "The East Africa Protectorate," 1905]

3. Prehistoric in appearance, the rhinoceros is indeed an ancient species.: 在外观上象史前动物的印度犀牛确实是一个古老的种.

4. The game wardens tranquillized the rhinoceros with a drugged dart.: 猎物保护区管理员用麻醉射器让犀牛静了下来.