Definition of Genus rhinoceros

1. Noun. Type genus of the Rhinocerotidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Rhinoceros

genus Regnellidium
genus Regulus
genus Reithrodontomys
genus Remilegia
genus Reseda
genus Retama
genus Reticulitermes
genus Retrophyllum
genus Rhagoletis
genus Rhamnus
genus Rhapis
genus Rhea
genus Rheum
genus Rhexia
genus Rhincodon
genus Rhinoceros
genus Rhinonicteris
genus Rhinoptera
genus Rhipsalis
genus Rhizobium
genus Rhizoctinia
genus Rhizophora
genus Rhizopogon
genus Rhizopus
genus Rhodanthe
genus Rhododendron
genus Rhodosphaera
genus Rhodymenia
genus Rhus
genus Rhyacotriton

Literary usage of Genus rhinoceros

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1801)
"The concluding remarks on the genus rhinoceros we shall transcribe. ' Upon the whole, there can be little doubt that there are, in reali- ' ty, ..."

2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"genus rhinoceros. " The skin divided into shields by well-marked folds, lumbar and neck-folds well developed ; horn single, anterior; part of occipital bone ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... in the typical genus Rhinoceros, while others recognize quite a number of sub-families and still more genera. Here the family is divided into two groups ..."

4. Anecdotal and descriptive natural history by A. Romer (1872)
"The genus Rhinoceros contains six living specimens, as far as naturalists are able to determine, and nine fossil species have been recorded, the relics of ..."

5. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1874)
"In some respects it has decided relations to the genus rhinoceros. ... The molar teeth of this animal resemble those of the genus rhinoceros, ..."

6. Annual Record of Science and Industry by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1875)
"In some respects it has decided relations to the genus rhinoceros. ... The molar teeth of this animal resemble those of the genus rhinoceros, ..."

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