pachydermatous
adjEtymology From pachy- + -dermatous.
1
Of or relating to the pachyderms.
2
Like an elephant.
- The sanda comes up tail foremost, and blocks the orifice with his pachydermatous appendage.1913, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, page 122:
3
Humorous Thick-skinned; insensitive.
- The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
- Derived terms
- pachydermatously, pachydermatousness