thicker-skinned

The Bordeaux shape is made to catch sediment so the wine inside is probably made from thicker-skinned grapes.

Augieland: 2005

Smooth-skinned varieties, such as cascabel and guajillo, tend to burn more easily than the thicker-skinned, wrinkled ones.

Warm Reading For Cool Nights: A Guide To Mexican Chiles Part 2: Dried Chiles 2003

Smooth-skinned varieties, such as cascabel and guajillo, tend to burn more easily than the thicker-skinned, wrinkled ones.

Warm Reading For Cool Nights: A Guide To Mexican Chiles Part 2: Dried Chiles 2003

The Bordeaux shape is made to catch sediment so the wine inside is probably made from thicker-skinned grapes.

Big bottles 2005

Therefore the thicker-skinned animals are as a general rule thicker-haired for the causes mentioned; however, the thickest-skinned are not more so than other thick-skinned ones, as is shown by the class of swine compared to that of oxen and to the elephant and many others.

On the Generation of Animals 2002

Alison would have scowled, or burst into tears a few terms before, at this candid introduction, but she was thicker-skinned now.

Fifth Formers at St. Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

But the present House is thicker-skinned than its predecessors, and heard without a tremor the following conversation between the MINISTER OF PENSIONS and Mr. HOGGE: --

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various

We see an uproariously funny extravaganza in _Martin Chuzzlewit_, which we can well afford to laugh at, having grown thicker-skinned, and wonder what there is to be found in the _Notes_ so very abominable to an American.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

Beautiful models of the thicker-skinned fishes maybe made by this method, but rapidity of execution is a sine quâ non.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

The young Duke felt the old Duke to be thicker-skinned than himself and therefore unable to appreciate the thorns which so sorely worried his own flesh.

The Prime Minister 1876