rhinoceros-likeadv.adj.

1732 J. Mawer Epist. to Earl of Oxf. 45 Criticks half-learn'd, the genuine Sons of Spight, But grind their Teeth on what resists their Might, Rhinoceros-like.

1760 G. A. Stevens Hist. Tom Fool I. 200 From beneath a Pair of long, dark, bristly Eyelashes, Rhinoceros like, he sidelong gloted at her.

1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 1 Apr. 625 These snail-like tribes each threaten'd touch will shun; Others, rhinoceros-like, are moved by none.

1886 J. A. Froude Oceana xvi. 290 They..withdrew to wallow, rhinoceros-like, in a mud pool of their own.

1927 J. Tully Circus Parade viii. 134 She floundered, rhinoceros like, about the tent.

2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Aug. 17 He..pauses to deliver his offhand punchlines, and then..snorts, rhinoceros-like, into his microphone.

1828 Correspondent (N.Y.) 21 June 349 The rhinoceros-like coat of the flea.

1853 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xxxi. 190 There wasn't one of their daughters who had penetrated the rhinoceros-like hide of his own conceit.

1868 Dental Cosmos July 359 Titanotherium Prouti was a huge rhinoceros-like animal, nearly as large as an elephant.

1915 E. R. Lankester Diversions of Naturalist xxviii. 260 The skulls and whole skeletons of great rhinoceros-like animals..are dug up in early tertiary sands.

1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 276/3 The ceratopians..were better equipped to defend themselves, for the head of most was armed with rhinoceros-like horns.

1998 K. Sampson Extra Time 58 You'd rather the likes of David Unsworth..gets in one of his unnecessarily robust slide tackles..than see McManaman bodyswerve him, leave him on his rhinoceros-like backside.

2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life i. iii. 36 The rhinoceros-like diprotodonts, who died out some time after the Aborigines arrived in Australia.