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pachydermata
Part of speech: NounAn order of animals distinguished by the thickness of their skins, or having hoofs, as the elephant and horse, and many fossil animals.
Usage examples "pachydermata":- Pachydermata, 59, 74. Padivil, the great tank, 262. Pallegoix, on the elephants of Siam, 98 n. - "Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon", J. Emerson Tennent.
- The two examples of the exhumation of Pachydermata in a fresh state, which I have given in detail, are by no means the only cases that have occurred. - "The Romance of Natural History, Second Series", Philip Henry Gosse.