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Definition of Pachydermous

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pachydermous

Literary usage of Pachydermous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1895)
"Some of the illustrations are striking. Corns and horse warts are modified skin glands, which are survivals from a pachydermous past. ..."

2. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States by Horace Greeley (1866)
"... and the Keo- kuk, one might almost fancy that some of the pachydermous monsters which palaeontology brings to view from the 4 dark backward and abysm of ..."

3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"We crossed the stream on a bridge half crushed in by ponderous, pachydermous feet, and at once found ourselves among lines of bare brown men squatting under ..."

4. The Red Cross: A History of this Remarkable International Movement in the by Clara Barton (1898)
"... to behold limitless suffering and be fair to all; if he is pachydermous to the shafts of criticism, diplomat enough to secure universal favor, ..."

5. The Red Cross: A History of this Remarkable International Movement in the by Clara Barton (1898)
"... to behold limitless suffering and be fair to all; if he is pachydermous to the shafts of criticism, diplomat enough to secure universal favor, ..."

6. A Glossary of Botanic Terms: With Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1900)
"... pachydermous. Pal'mid, J. Smith's term for" Palms, Cycads and Tree-ferns of palm-like aspect. ..."

7. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"... and among them a whole length of an unicorn : but here we find most decidedly a pachydermous creature, such as a rhinoceros would be, if his proportions ..."

8. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"pachydermous, thick-skinned; applied to the walls of capsules or to cells when firm and resisting. ..."

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