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pachyderm
Part of speech: NounFormerly, one of a group of thick- skinned animals such as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.
Usage examples "pachyderm":- The teeth of this last- mentioned pachyderm were at first, in 1840, supposed to belong to a monkey, an opinion afterwards abandoned by Owen when more ample materials for comparison were obtained. - "The Student's Elements of Geology", Sir Charles Lyell.
- I'm the pachyderm of the family. - "The Twilight of the Souls", Louis Couperus.
- This pachyderm and Rhinoceros tichorhinus are cited as characterising the loess in various parts of the valley of the Rhine. - "The Antiquity of Man", Charles Lyell.