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Pachydermal

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of pachydermic.; Characterized by or characteristic of pachydermy.

    "At that point of time the skin is macroscopically seen to be slightly thickened and is in course of transition to the pachydermal stage."

  2. 2
    Synonym of pachydermic.; Pertaining to the obsolete taxonomic order Pachydermata.

    "The anterior teeth are, however, displaced before the posterior ones are developed, although they have no vertical successors, which circumstance is also characteristic of the Elephant : the shape, the structure, and the mode of implantation of the molars of the Manatee quite accord with the pachydermal type, and herein more especially with the Dinotherium and Tapir."

  3. 3
    Synonym of pachydermic.; Pertaining to or involving elephants.

    "Thai veterinarians interviewed during the course of this research particularly commented on pachydermal aversion to their presence."

  4. 4
    Synonym of pachydermic.; Massive; elephantine.

    "[…]which was why I was banished to the backyard while those with verbal-wallets bursting at seams, with pachydermal crock, did a sumptuous roast on the old lady's fears and pains […]"

  5. 5
    Grainy.

    "The pachydermal exothecial cells of the capsule that are prevalent in rheophytes are lacking."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms wordnet

Etymology

From pachyderm + -al or pachy- + derm + -al.

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