pachyderma

How To Use pachyderma In A Sentence

• Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour. The Complete Father Brown
• She had piqued his curiosity, aroused his interest and disturbed by just a pin-prick his pachydermatous equanimity; she would not raise again before the draw. The Fifth Ace
• The sexes of other pachydermatous animals differ very little or not at all, and, as far as known, they are not polygamists.
• We taxied from the revetment, swaying and lurching into our assigned spot in that pachydermal-like parade which always disappears, plane by plane, whenever a bomber group is launched into battle.
• When she sequenced the ribosomal DNA from three species - and Neogloboquadrina pachyderma-she found the genes to be so similar that, she says Scientific American
• The cool-water assemblage was dominated by another species, which rejoiced in the glorious name Neogloboquadrina pachyderma.
• This combination, of ratlike claws and pachydermatous-size insteps, causes the subject to be very cautious about where, and indeed when, he takes off his shoes. On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part I
• In advance of the troops came the armoured train, a pachydermatous monster which moved cumbrously in front of the column, and was saluted by the smoking wrath of big guns as soon as it appeared. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
• In another species (_S. catenulata_) what seems a minute chain of distinctly formed elliptical links drops down the middle of each flute; in yet another (_S. oculata_) the carvings are of an oval form, and, bearing each a round impression in its centre, they somewhat resemble rows of staring goggle-eyes; while the carvings in yet another species (_S. pachyderma_) consist chiefly of crescent-shaped depressions. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
• But even a Flamburian may at last be pierced; and then (as with other pachydermatous animals) the hole, once made, is almost certain to grow larger. Mary Anerley