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Webster 1913 Edition

Pachydermatous

Pachˊy-der′ma-tous

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Adj.
1.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the pachyderms.
2.
Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pachydermatous

PACHYDERMATOUS

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Adj.
[Gr., thick, skin.] Having a thick skin; an epithet applied to an order of animals, called Pachydermata, embracing all the hoofed quadrupeds which do not ruminate, as the elephant, mastodon or North American mammoth, hippopotamus, sus or hog, rhinoceros, tapir, and horse. The horse constitutes a separate order, Solipeda.

Definition 2024

pachydermatous

pachydermatous

English

Adjective

pachydermatous ‎(comparative more pachydermatous, superlative most pachydermatous)

  1. of or relating to the pachyderms
  2. thick-skinned, insensitive

References

  • Angus Stevenson (editor), Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 6th Edition (Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780199206872)
  • Frederick C. Mish (Editor in Chief), Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition. Merriam-Webster, 2003. ISBN 9780877798088.
  • “pachydermatous” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
  • Josefa Heifetz Byrne, Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words. Granada Publishing, 1979. ISBN 0246111518.

Etymology

pachy- +‎ -dermatous

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