ˈn?s?r?s/, from Greek rhinokerōs, meaning 'nose-horned', from rhis, meaning 'nose', and keras, meaning 'horn'), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is one of any five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae, as well as any of the numerous extinct species therein. A male rhinoceros is called a bull, a female a cow, and the young a calf a group of rhinoceros is called a "crash". The rhinoceros (commonly called rhino for short plural can be either rhinoceros or rhinoceroses) is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. One may also ask, what is more than one rhinoceros called? Likewise, what is the plural of fish? Fish is the most common plural form of the word fish, as in Squiggly brought home fish for the aquarium, but there are some instances in which people use fishes instead: Scientists who study fish (ichthyologists), for example, often refer to different species as fishes.
However, hippopotamuses (which adheres to the standard rules for forming plurals) has become marginally more common than hippopotami. rhinoceros (plural rhinoceros or rhinoceroses or (nonstandard) rhinoceri or (archaic) rhinocerotes) Any of several large herbivorous pachyderms native to Africa and Asia of the five extant species in the three extant genera in the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts. The noun hippopotamus has a Latin root, which is the derivation of the plural hippopotami. In rare, nonstandard, contexts, the plural form can also be rhinoceroses.Īlso, what is the plural form of hippopotamus?
The plural form of rhinoceros is also rhinoceros.