| 词组 | rhinoceros |
| 释义 | rhinoceros The plural of rhinoceros seems to have vexed a great many writers, to judge from the wide variety of plurals shown in the OED. The variety has boiled down to three in present-day use: rhinoceroses, the most common, and rhinoceros and rhinoceri. Rhinoceri has occasionally been disapproved (Evans 1957), apparently because of its irregular formation, but has been used at least occasionally since the end of the 18th century. • ... the African giants—elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses —Barbara Ford, Saturday Rev., 5 Aug. 1972 • ... land-based creatures that have since disappeared: elephants, buffalo, rhinoceros —Frederic V. Grun-feld, The Reporter, 14 July 1966 • ... the perissodactyls, dwindled to a few tapirs and myopic rhinoceri in my own era —John Updike, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 1971 |
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