rhinocerotes

noun

1. (archaic, form-of, plural)plural of rhinoceros

   “Wandering about among the trees or crouching in the long and feathered grass were all varieties of game, from rhinocerotes down.”

   “A vast number of lions were poisoned by contaminating the carcasses of their prey with toxic cattle dip; a population of at least a hundred rhinocerotes was attacked with spears, leaving a single one alive; hundreds of wildebeest and zebras have been found rotting.”

   “Another seal from Mohenjodaro shows us the male God horned and three faced sitting in yogic posture and still another seal gives his representations as surrounded by beasts, the elephant, the tiger, the rhinocerotes and the buffalo with a couple of deer at his feet.”

   “The rhinoceros’ horn stands upright. Through a belief in sympathetic magic, it is thought to make men’s parts stand upright, and male anxiety about their erection has come close to wiping out the population of rhinocerotes.”

   “In any case, your five rhinocerotes won’t be appearing, nor will we stalely fellow them, we will be busy accrediting my hordes.”

2. (archaic, form-of, plural)plural of rhinocerot (“(now rare) a rhinoceros”)

   “Beyond that Country of Birds, is another wilde and mountainous, where abide many creatures much worse than those Birds, Elephants, Rhinocerotes, Lions, Wild-swine, Buffals, and Wild-kine.”

3. (form-of, obsolete, plural)plural of rhinocerote (“a rhinoceros”)