Meaning

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.

Word Forms

• more rhinocerine
• most rhinocerine

Synonyms for rhinocerine

When Should You Use Rhinocerine?

Use rhinocerine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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