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pachydermatous, a.|pækɪˈdɜːmətəs|
[f. Pachydermata + -ous.]
1. Of or belonging to the Pachydermata.
1823Buckland Reliq. Diluv. 18 Teeth of the larger pachydermatous animals are not abundant. 1874Wood Nat. Hist. 245 The last on the list of the pachydermatous animals is the well-known Hippopotamus, or River Horse.
2. fig. Thick-skinned; not sensitive to rebuff, ridicule, or abuse; not easily affected by outside influences.
1854Lowell Keats Prose Wks. 1890 I. 229 A man cannot have a sensuous nature and be pachydermatous at the same time. a1876M. Collins Th. in Garden (1880) II. 299, I doubt whether the poet might not find better employment than lashing pachydermatous fools.
Hence pachyˈdermatously adv., pachyˈdermatousness.
1854Wood Anim. Life (1855) 367 [An animal] of whose pachydermatousness, if we may coin such a word, there is no doubt. This is the Giraffe, whose hide is more than an inch in thickness. 1865Morley Mod. Characteristics 35 The conditions of social and intellectual pachydermatousness are in themselves equally wonderful. 1900Westm. Gaz. 1 Oct. 11/3 By being able pachydermatously to withstand the protests to which we have referred. |