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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various large, thick-skinned, hoofed mammals such as the elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Thick-skinned, as a member of the Pachydermata. Also pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermous.
  2. n. A non-ruminant hoofed quadruped; any member of the old order Pachydermata.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Someone (or something) with thick skin. It is used for animals such as an elephant or a hippopotamus.
  2. n. zoology A member of the obsolete taxonomic group Pachydermata, grouping of thick-skinned, hoofed animals such as the rhinoceros, hippopotamus, elephant, pig and horse.
  3. n. informal An elephant
  4. n. idiomatic A person that is not affected by (does not care about) what others say about him or her.
  5. n. idiomatic Someone who is insensitive.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin, including the elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, one of the Pachydermata.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus.

Etymologies

  1. pachy- + derma, from Ancient Greek παχύδερμος (pakhudermos), from παχύς (pakhus, "thick") + δέρμα (derma, "skin"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French pachyderme, from New Latin *Pachyderma, sing. of Pachydermata, obsolete order name, from Greek pakhudermos, thick-skinned : pakhus, thick + derma, skin; see derma1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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