How do you pronounce "rhinocerotes"?

Pronounced //ɹaɪˈnɒ.sə.ɹəʊts//.

Rhinocerotes

Common synonyms include: rhinoceri, rhinoceroi, rhinoceros, rhinoceroses, rhinocerosses, rhinocerots.

//ɹaɪˈnɒ.sə.ɹəʊts// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Noun

1
plural of rhinoceros archaic, form-of, plural
"Wandering about among the trees or crouching in the long and feathered grass were all varieties of game, from rhinocerotes down."
2
plural of rhinocerot (“(now rare) a rhinoceros”) archaic, form-of, plural
"Beyond that Country of Birds, is another wilde and mountainous, where abide many creatures much worse than those Birds, Elephants, Rhinocerotes, Lions, Wild-swine, Buffals, and Wild-kine."
3
plural of rhinocerote (“a rhinoceros”) form-of, obsolete, plural

"Wandering about among the trees or crouching in the long and feathered grass were all varieties of game, from rhinocerotes down."

From Latin rhīnocerōtēs.

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