rhinocerine
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rhinoceros + -ine.[1][2]
Adjective
[edit]rhinocerine (comparative more rhinocerine, superlative most rhinocerine)
- Of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of rhinoceroses.
- Regarding us warily, the creature turned its rhinocerine head in our direction.
- 1870 April 27, “Proceedings of the Geological Society”, in The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London[1], page 458:
- The above appear to have been the only Rhinocerine remains discovered at Oreston...
- 1890, “Glimpses of Irish Industries”, in Donahoe's Monthly Magazine[2], volume XXIII, number 3, page 248:
- 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.
- 2006 [1966], Robert Sheckley, Mindswap[3], New York: Tom Doherty Associates, page 108:
- 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.
- 1997, William A. S. Sarjeant, “Crystal Palace”, in Philip J. Currie, Kevin Padian, editors, Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs[4], Elsevier, page 162:
- ...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.
- 2002, Allen A. Debus, Diane E. Debus, Dinosaur Memories[5], Authors Choice Press, page 256:
- 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.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "rhinocerine", in William Dwight Whitney (editor), The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, vol. XVII (1890), p. 5152.
- ^ "Rhinocerine", in William Craigie (editor), A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), vol. VIII (1914), p. 629.