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Definition of Rhinoceros beetle
1. Noun. Any of various large chiefly tropical beetles having horns on the head; pest on coconuts.
Definition of Rhinoceros beetle
1. Noun. any of various tropical beetles, mostly of the genus ''Dynastes'', having horns on the head and thorax; a pest on coconuts ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhinoceros Beetle
Literary usage of Rhinoceros beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All about Coconuts by Roland Belfort, Alfred Johannes Hoyer (1914)
"... but not usually to such an extent as to constitute a menace to really healthy
trees. Altogether, among commercially valuable trees, rhinoceros beetle ..."
2. A Residence in the West Indies and America: With a Narrative of the by Thomas Staunton St. Clair, James Glenn (1834)
"... Bird from the charge of injuring Trees—The Knife- grinder, or Rhinoceros-beetle—Rat
Hunting—Extraordinary Method of Bagging this kind of Game alive. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"rhinoceros beetle. A name in the South for a large ... The male has two long Л
HALE rhinoceros beetle. horns, one extending forward from the head and the ..."
4. A Soldier's Recollections of the West Indies and America: With a Narrative by Thomas Staunton St. Clair (1834)
"... Bird from the charge of injuring Trees—The Knife- grinder, or Rhinoceros-beetle—Rat
Hunting—Extraordinary Method of Bagging this kind of Game alive. ..."
5. A Soldier's Recollections of the West Indies and America: With a Narrative by Thomas Staunton St. Clair (1834)
"... Bird from the charge of injuring Trees—The Knife- grinder, or Rhinoceros-beetle—Rat
Hunting—Extraordinary Method of Bagging this kind of Game alive. ..."
6. Indian Museum Notes by Indian Museum (1903)
"A male of the rhinoceros beetle, O. rhinoceros, is figured on plate viii, fig.
i, 6*. III.—INSECT PESTS OF PLANTS. On Crotalaria hirsuta, Wild. i. ..."
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