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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- The non-ruminant ungulate mammals, or hoofed quadrupeds which do not chew the cud; in Cuvier's classification, the seventh order of Mammalia, divided into Proboscidea, Ordinaria, and Solidungula. The order contained the elephants, hippopotamuses, swine, rhinoceroses, hyraxes, tapirs, horses, etc., corresponding to some extent with the Belluæ of Linnæus. It is disused, its components now forming the orders Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, the perissodactyl suborder of Ungulata, and a few of the artiodactyls. Also called
Jumenta .
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog; the pachyderms. It is now considered an artificial group.
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“Now and then a strain besieged him, but none could carry that stout heart, or overthrow that nature, the wonder of pachydermata.”
“For instance, among the mammalia the pachydermata, among the reptilia the salamander and newt, among the articulata the cephalopoda, are at present remarkably reduced; -- compare with the legions of ammonites and belemnites of the secondary period the small number of nautilus and cuttle-fish of the seas at the present day.”
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
“French scientists, even before it; and that, palæontologically speaking, man and {89} mammoth lived at the same time, and, according to a discovery made some thirty years ago at Denise in Middle France, probably even man and another older and defunct form of pachydermata, the elephas meridionalis, in North America man and the mastodon.”
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
“He told me a great deal about worms, and the kangaroo, and other coleoptera, and said he knew the history and ways of all such pachydermata.”
“What transformations of climate to drive the pachydermata away from the pole!”
“This suggests to me an idea relative to the horse, the last important member of the _pachydermata_ which remains to be spoken of.”
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
“After the musk-deer comes the large family of camels and llamas, which represent -- the former in Asia and Africa, the latter in America -- the irregular groups of ruminants which have canines instead of horns, and which seem to be placed as intermediates between true ruminants and the pachydermata.”
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
“There we find them projecting out of the mouth with a curve, as is so commonly seen among the _pachydermata_, forming those terrible, sharp, and pointed tusks which have been so often fatal to the hunter.”
The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
“It does not follow from this that his beef should be well tasted -- since we see that the hog, one of the most unclean of feeders, yields most delicious "pork;" while another of the same family (_pachydermata_) that subsists only on sweet succulent roots, produces a flesh both insipid and bitter.”
“A considerable number are pachydermata, {127} of a character approximating to the South American tapir: the names, palaeotherium, anthracotherium, anoplotherium, lophiodon, &c., have been applied to them with a consideration of more or less conspicuous peculiarities; but a description of the first may give some general idea of the whole.”
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