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Pachyderm   Listen
noun
pachyderm  n.  (Zool.) Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin, including the elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, one of the Pachydermata.






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"Pachyderm" Quotes from Famous Books



... the knee-cap, all nearly in their proper relative positions; 6th, fragments of the jaw and a separate tooth of a Toxodon, belonging either to T. Platensis, or to a second species lately discovered near Buenos Ayres; 7th, a tooth of Equus curvidens; 8th, tooth of a Pachyderm, closely allied to Palaeotherium, of which parts of the head have been lately sent from Buenos Ayres to the British Museum; in all probability this pachyderm is identical with the Macrauchenia Patagonica from Port ...
— South American Geology - also: - Title: Geological Observations On South America • Charles Darwin

... experience, may enable authors to meet the arbiters of their destiny without becoming frightened, but I have had brief experience, and still less fame. The admirable qualities of the pachyderm may have been bestowed upon some ...
— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed



Words linked to "Pachyderm" :   pachydermous, elephant, pachydermal, placental, placental mammal, thick skin, pachydermatous, eutherian



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