rhinocerotic, a.
(raɪnɒsəˈrɒtɪk)
[ad. late L. rhīnocerōtic-us, f. rhīnocerōt-, -ōs.]
Of, belonging to, characteristic of, or resembling the rhinoceros.
| 1755 World No. 150 V. 84 Martial in one of his epigrams, calls this kind of nose the rhinocerotic nose [= nasus rhinocerotis]. 1868 B. L. Gildersleeve Ess. & Stud. (1890) 427 Some demagogue's rhinocerotic smeller-face, A paragon of never-ceasing snuffledom. 1883 Nature XXVIII. 579/2 The rhinocerotic features of the skull. 1887 A. Heilprin Distrib. Anim. 368 The somewhat rhinocerotic Amynodon. |
So rhiˈnocerotine, rhiˈnocerotoid adjs.
| 1845 Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. II. 607/1 A Rhinocerotine animal, in form lighter than a wild bull. 1891 C. F. Holder C. Darwin 206 A rhinocerotoid, or a tapiroid animal. |