HOW TO PRONOUNCE
rhinoceros
/ɹaɪˈnɑ.sə.ɹəs/
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ry-NAH-suh-rus: the c sounds like s.
The opening rh is a single r followed by the long i of “my.” Stress NAH and keep the last two syllables light.
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“A rhinoceros stood beside the watering hole.”
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noun
- Any large herbivorous ungulate mammal native to Africa and Asia of the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.
- An ungulate mammal of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, including the hornless Paraceratherium.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹaɪˈnɑ.sə.ɹəs/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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No doubt the sudden concurrence of half-a-ton of inorganic molecules into a live rhinoceros is conceivable, and therefore may be possible.
This is well shown in the drawings given by Owen of the bones of the leg of the horse, ox, and rhinoceros.
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Mr. Fleischman, however, was privileged to see the wonderful sight of the capture and destruction of a full-grown rhinoceros by a crocodile.
To dream that you see a rhinoceros, foretells you will have a great loss threatening you, and that you will have secret troubles.
We were outside the swamp, when down a jungle-track came a charging rhinoceros, his head down and an evil look in his eye.