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adj. - Of or relating to or characteristic of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin (elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus)

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Usage examples (4)
  • Bill Geist has the lowdown on the team of New Yorkers who are a kind of pachydermal equivalent of the Jamaican bobsled team.
  • I do not wish to have our coins festooned with his pachydermal ears.
  • It all comes down to ignorance though, fundamentally, if a substantial minority of the population is unable to even attempt an informed debate without resorting to...
  • “That fish, as you call it, Joe, is really a mammiferous animal of the pachydermal species.
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