pachydermic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by or characteristic of pachydermy.
adj
Pertaining to the obsolete taxonomic order Pachydermata.
adj
Pertaining to or involving elephants.
adj
adj
Ponderous; slow and deliberate.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "In pachydermic idiocy the symptoms are more decided and the appearance more distinctive. In the cretin the hands are of a more normal shape, whereas in the pachydermic idiot the fingers are lumpy and the hands swollen."
- "In some cases, these changes can spread beyond the injury site to the entire limb, and in the worst case, in addition to excruciating pain and hyperesthesia, the skin becomes pachydermic."
- "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."
- "... "great beasts that resembled huge brown haystacks" and had long, long teeth — tusks, no doubt — so it seems incontrovertible that mastodons and woolly mammoths are meant. Such pachydermic animals did roam Maine once upon a time."
- "This is rather like dividing the zoological universe into pachydermic and non-pachydermic animals."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more pachydermic (comparative)
most pachydermic (superlative)