pachyderma

How To Use pachyderma In A Sentence

• Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour. The Complete Father Brown
• It all comes down to ignorance though, fundamentally, if a substantial minority of the population is unable to even attempt an informed debate without resorting to pachydermal vitriol, then you will unfortunately be left with a corrupt, morally bankrupt set of lunatics. McCain's Lying Has Gone Too Far, According To ... Karl Rove!
• Bill Geist has the lowdown on the team of New Yorkers who are a kind of pachydermal equivalent of the Jamaican bobsled team. Entertainment News: CBSNews.com
• 18O values of the planktonic foraminifera Globigerina bulloides and the development of the polar foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (s.) left coiling. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• Under the systems of older naturalists the thick-skinned animals were lumped together under the order UNGULATA, or _hoofed animals_, subdivided by Cuvier into _Pachydermata_, or thick-skinned non-ruminants, and _Ruminantia_, or ruminating animals; but neither the elephant nor the coney can be called hoofed animals, and in other respects they so entirely differ from the rest that recent systematists have separated them into three distinct orders -- _Proboscidea_, _Hyracoidea_ and _Ungulata_, which classification I here adopt. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• “That fish, as you call it, Joe, is really a mammiferous animal of the pachydermal species. Five Weeks in a Balloon
• The wonder is that the country ever got governed at all, but it seems that all public men who had any fixed and sensible ideas and wished to see them carried out, had to make themselves callous, pachydermatous, hardened against this offensive mud-slinging. The Dominion in 1983
• A dozen of red partridges and rays were speedily brought down, and Glenarvan also managed very cleverly to kill a TAY-TETRE, or peccary, a pachydermatous animal, the flesh of which is excellent eating. In Search of the Castaways
• N. pachyderma (s) left coiling, (c) the concentrations of microcharcoal surface area PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• I have, for instance, not even mentioned the sea, which swept smoother and smoother in toward the feet of those precipices and grew more and more trans-lucently purple and yellow and green, while half a score of cascades shot straight down their fronts in shafts of snowy foam, and over their pachydermatous shoulders streamed and hung long reaches of gray vines or mosses. Roman Holidays, and Others