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Definition of "pachydermous" []

  • Same as pachyderm.
  • In botany, thick-coated: applied sometimes to a thick-walled capsule of mosses.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "pachydermous" in a sentence
  • "It was impossible to score an advantage over his stolid strength and pachydermous insensibility."
  • "Ab Maddock, big, impudent, and pachydermous, it took Dugald Robertson, the minister's son, just half an hour's hard fighting to extract"
  • "Then the pachydermous one enters into the other’s heaven, probably with the resolution already formed of ousting that unhappy angel."