rhinoceros beetle

1. 1.

   any of various large chiefly tropical beetles having horns on the head; pest on coconuts

   Broaderscarabaeid beetle

Questions about rhinoceros beetle

What does rhinoceros beetle mean?

rhinoceros beetle means "any of various large chiefly tropical beetles having horns on the head; pest on coconuts".

Is rhinoceros beetle a common word?

rhinoceros beetle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.