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  • noun Plural form of pachyderm.

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Examples

  • You are entering the realm of the Elephant King, a sovereign so rich in pachyderms that he can waste the gnashers of a thousand of the beasts just to decorate me.

    Cassocks and Codpieces 2008

  • You are entering the realm of the Elephant King, a sovereign so rich in pachyderms that he can waste the gnashers of a thousand of the beasts just to decorate me.

    Cassocks and Codpieces 2008

  • You are entering the realm of the Elephant King, a sovereign so rich in pachyderms that he can waste the gnashers of a thousand of the beasts just to decorate me.

    Cassocks and Codpieces 2008

  • The pachyderms were a mainstay of the logging industry in the northern and western parts of the country until logging contracts were revoked in the late 1980s.

    NYDN Rss 2012

  • This is an alarming trend when the government and its line agencies know that saving the pachyderms is a tougher-than-said mission, especially when the law and order situation is not up to the mark to come down heavily on the poachers who are after the horn which can mint money beyond any ordinary thoughts.

    News 2010

  • But Hilton chooses not to invest in pachyderms, which is foolish because it’s just throwing away guaranteed money.

    Paris Hilton & Benji Madden Get Torn Apart By A Universe That Hates Seeing Two Simultaneous Uglies 2008

  • We are naked like other mammals either currently living in water or evolved out of water, including dolphins, whales, and other pachyderms.

    duh pookie 2009

  • We have flocks of media oxpeckers who ride the backs of pachyderms, feeding on ticks.

    Arianna wins in a knockout 2011

  • And if you read C A R E F U L L Y Jwest you will see we have two pachyderms sleeping on the job here.

    Think Progress » Inhofe trying to get Bunning to end filibuster so highway funding doesn’t expire. 2010

  • We are naked like other mammals either currently living in water or evolved out of water, including dolphins, whales, and other pachyderms.

    duh pookie 2009

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