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Pachydermic
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- 1 Characterized by or characteristic of pachydermy.
"Pachydermic changes may take place either in the interarytenoid commissure or in the mucous membrane covering the true vocal cords, or it may exist in a generally diffuse form within the larynx."
- 2 Pertaining to the obsolete taxonomic order Pachydermata.
"The position of the Walrus is between Sirenidia and Pachydermata ; they belong to the pachydermic order by structural evidences, and bear only analogies to the seals."
- 3 Pertaining to or involving elephants.
""This," says the press agent, "was a test, of pachydermic memory which corroboratcs all that tradition and history assumes.""
- 4 Massive; elephantine.
"Maybe that's why a state legislative committee, asked to recommend changes to Illinois' politically sleazy purchasing system. has called for a new bureaucracy of pachydermic proportions."
- 5 Ponderous; slow and deliberate.
"Have you ever noticed that you can practically see men thinking at a business conference, pachydermic with seriousness?"
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- 6 Thick-skinned; insensitive.
"On the contrary, we are studiously pachydermic and nobody ever accused us of being sensitive to public opinion, but really this thing is commencing to afiect even our nerves."
- 1 of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms wordnet
Etymology
From pachy- + derm + -ic or pachyderm + -ic.
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