pachyderm
noun
any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as elephants, hippopotamuses, and rhinoceroses.
pachydermal
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a word derived from
pachyderm.
Example Sentences
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My heart pounds so loudly that I fear the rhino might hear it — the duo is close enough for me to make out the rough texture of their gray, pachydermal skin.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
Head of the Biltmore junta was an elderly, pachydermal gentleman named Dr. Domingo Mendez Capote, who blushingly denied reports that if & when the revolution was successful he might possibly be chosen President of Cuba.
From Time Magazine Archive
Directors try for the intimacy of a movie close- up or the narrative voice of fiction or the pachydermal pizzazz of theme- park extravaganzas, and you think, Why did they bother?
From Time Magazine Archive
That fish, as you call it, Joe, is really a mammiferous animal of the pachydermal species.
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
