rhinoceros

英 [raɪˈnɒsərəs]

美 [raɪˈnɑːsərəs]

n.  犀，犀牛(栖于非洲和亚洲)

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BNC.24164 / COCA.22710

牛津词典

noun

• 犀，犀牛（栖于非洲和亚洲）
  a large heavy animal with very thick skin and either one or two horns on its nose, that lives in Africa and Asia

柯林斯词典

• 犀牛
  Arhinocerosis a large Asian or African animal with thick grey skin and a horn, or two horns, on its nose.

英英释义

noun

• massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
  Synonym:rhino

双语例句

• Would you rather be crushed by a snake, eaten by a crocodile or sat on by a rhinoceros?
  你是愿意被一条蛇缠着，还是被一只鳄鱼吃掉，或是被一头犀牛坐在屁股底下？
• The rhinoceros is one of the oldest surviving species.
  犀牛是仍在地球上生存的古老物种之一。
• They went on safari searching for the rare black rhinoceros.
  他们进行探险旅行，搜寻那稀有的黑犀牛。
• This region is now the home of the second largest surviving population of the endangered Indian rhinoceros.
  现在这个地区成了受难的印度犀牛存活着的第二大种群之家。
• Wait a minute. I though rhinoceros were vegetarians.
  等一下，你们犀牛应该是食草动物吧？
• Circular of the State Council on Banning the Trade of Rhinoceros Horn and Tiger Bone
  国务院关于禁止犀牛角和虎骨贸易的通知
• Who wants a cheap rhinoceros?
  谁要一只便宜的犀牛？
• Large light-gray African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros.
  有两只角的大型浅灰色非洲犀牛；濒临灭绝。
• Any of various extinct herbivorous hoofed mammals of the genus Brontotherium and related genera, of the Eocene and Oligocene epochs, resembling the rhinoceros.
  雷兽类一种已绝迹的雷兽属和其它相关属类的有蹄食草哺乳动物，生长于始新世和渐新世，类似于犀牛。
• Throughout the Nomenclature, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as "ivory".
  本税则所称“兽牙”，是指象、河马、海象、一角鲸和野猪的长牙、犀角及其他动物的牙齿。