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- noun Plural form of
rhinoceros .
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Examples
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Large land mammals such as rhinoceri and elephants have had their ranges greatly diminished in Asia and Africa by habitat destruction.
AP Environmental Science Chapter 20- Higher-Order Effects 2008
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The hippos, sodden and viscid ... the crocodiles, deaf, angry, hungry ... swambats, as furious as rhinoceri whose size they doubled ...
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As is often the case, the original is much smaller – I drew her on a scrap of paper that had managed not to be invaded by clandestine rhinoceri.
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As is often the case, the original is much smaller – I drew her on a scrap of paper that had managed not to be invaded by clandestine rhinoceri.
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As is often the case, the original is much smaller – I drew her on a scrap of paper that had managed not to be invaded by clandestine rhinoceri.
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So please forgive any straying into discussions of umbrella-guns, rhinoceri, or sausage cars.
Rollin' Down [Apgujyeong] Rodeo savemyseoul 2008
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The Dinokeng Reserve accommodates 268 guests, and features elephants, leopards, lions, rhinoceri and buffalo.
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So the rhinoceri who are doing the upstairs apartment are back again ... this time to replace the carpet ... so it a loud scraping noise, pretty much constantly ... * sigh*
Holy Hell velvetacidgrrrl 2002
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However the federal government is suing Exxon for violating the Disabilities Act. Some of you have heard of the Endangered Species Act. When you think of endangered species you think of whales, eagles, rhinoceri, or elephants -- real animals.
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You know how they look: bodies sort of like rhinoceri, torsos with bone-plated heads and fingered tentacles.
Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964
ry commented on the word rhinoceri
this may be the only word in English that has the syllable "rī" in it twice.
December 8, 2012
bilby commented on the word rhinoceri
A priori, you don't really have a case. Arguably rhinoceri is a nonce word and has ri only once in the written form.
Luckily you don't fit the territorial criteria of an authoritarian agriculturist with geriatric beri-beri.
December 8, 2012
ry commented on the word rhinoceri
Oh, but I was referring to the syllable as spoken with long i, not the written form (note the diacritic).
But now I've actually found one more: ribavirin
December 9, 2012
bilby commented on the word rhinoceri
I find it hard to believe the last syllable of ribavirin is long.
December 9, 2012
ry commented on the word rhinoceri
derpface...somehow the "vi" became "ri" in my brain. I'm tempted to delete my comment. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing: contains-2x-r-long-i
December 11, 2012