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Synonyms for pachyderm

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pak-i-durm
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæk ɪˌdɜrm

Définition of pachyderm

Origin :
  • 1838, from French pachyderme (c.1600), adopted as a biological term 1797 by French naturalist Georges Léopole Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832), from Greek pachydermos "thick-skinned," from pachys "thick, large, massive," from PIE *bhengh- "thick, fat" (cf. Sanskrit bahu- "much, numerous" Avestan bazah- "height, depth," Hittite pankush "large," Old Norse bingr "heap," Old High German bungo "a bulb," Lithuanian biess "thick") + derma "skin" (see derma).
  • noun nonruminant hoofed mammal
Example sentences :
  • "It is a pachyderm—consequently, a relation of the pig," answered my friend.
  • Extract from : « Adventures of a Young Naturalist » by Lucien Biart
  • She's a pachyderm and she's a pig; and, if she keeps on, she'll drag her husband to her level.
  • Extract from : « The Brentons » by Anna Chapin Ray
  • It had not been a delicate negotiation, because Mrs. Cole-Mortimer had the skin of a pachyderm.
  • Extract from : « The Angel of Terror » by Edgar Wallace
  • The words ought to have scorched him, pachyderm though he was.
  • Extract from : « T. Tembarom » by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • A little more of the pachyderm would help me in this respect.
  • Extract from : « Our Friend John Burroughs » by Clara Barrus
  • It is true there was much reason in his holding to the opinion that the hyrax is no pachyderm.
  • Extract from : « The Young Yagers » by Mayne Reid
  • Are you going among elephants, Flix, and don't know what a pachyderm is?
  • Extract from : « Across India » by Oliver Optic
  • "He needn't be, perched on the top of the pachyderm," answered Scott.
  • Extract from : « Across India » by Oliver Optic
  • All of them had heard that an ordinary leaden bullet will not penetrate the tough thick skin of the great “pachyderm.”
  • Extract from : « The Bush Boys » by Captain Mayne Reid
  • This pachyderm and Rhinoceros tichorhinus are cited as characterising the loess in various parts of the valley of the Rhine.
  • Extract from : « The Geological Evidence of The Antiquity of Man » by Charles Lyell

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