pachyderm

[ UK /pˈæt‍ʃa‍ɪdəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus
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How To Use pachyderm In A Sentence

  • Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour. The Complete Father Brown
  • He then elects to take his new pet to California, but he only has five days to unload his pachyderm.
  • And the challenges arrived: Stories with titles like “She Killed Me Twice”, “The Brain That Exploded”, “The Pachyderm Wore Pink” and “Single White Fee Male” with words like ranunculus, vaginate and carronade. 300 stories later, here for the first time in print are 180 of the best. Srs Book Lnx - I mean, for real — check these out for lo, they contain much awesomeness
  • The Centre has hurriedly taken the much-awaited decision of implementation of the project in Tripura in tune with the State's considerable increase of green cover, which would help the pachyderms to find their required habitat.
  • The station then lay well within the domain of the pachyderms i.e., the elephant corridor while migrating from one end of the Western Ghats to the other.
  • A huge chart had various action poses of the pachyderm such as catching butterflies, fishing, sleeping, walking with shorts, pushing a baby elephant in a perambulator and sitting on a drum eating ice cream.
  • So far the red peppers appear to be an easy, cost-effective means of warding off pachyderms without harming them, Osborn says.
  • It and the peccary are the only two Pachydermata, or thick-skinned animals, indigenous to the southern continent. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
  • One of the most terrifying sights in the animal world is an elephant in a state of must: Huge bulls, oozing a weird, foul-smelling, greenish glop from glands near their eyes, behave with violent abandon, taking risks and defying the basic rules of pachyderm propriety and also giving rise to the term "rogue elephant". NYT > Home Page
  • Wildlife groups have slammed a move by an Indian state to give contraceptives to domesticated elephants to control their numbers, saying it would hurt the pachyderm population already under threat.
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