rhinocerotes

1. (now rare) plural of rhinocerosExamples: "Wandering about among the trees or crouching in the long and feathered grass were all varieties of game, from rhinocerotes down."; "A vast number of lions were poisoned by contaminating the carcasses of their prey with toxic cattle dip; a population of at least a hundred rhinocerotes was attacked with spears, leaving a single one alive; hundreds of wildebeest and zebras have been found rotting."; "Another seal from Mohenjodaro shows us the male God horned and three faced sitting in yogic posture and still another seal gives his representations as surrounded by beasts, the elephant, the tiger, the rhinocerotes and the buffalo with a couple of deer at his feet."Synonyms: rhinoceri, rhinoceroi, rhinoceros, rhinoceroses, rhinocerossesarchaicform-ofplural

2. (archaic) plural of rhinocerot (“(now rare) a rhinoceros”)Examples: "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."Synonyms: rhinocerotsarchaicform-ofplural

3. (obsolete) plural of rhinocerote (“a rhinoceros”)form-ofobsoleteplural