pachydermial

Adjective

pachydermal (comparative more pachydermal, superlative most pachydermal)

1. Characterized by or characteristic of pachydermy.
   • At that point of time the skin is macroscopically seen to be slightly thickened and is in course of transition to the pachydermal stage.1931, Acta Pathologica Et Microbiologica Scandinavica
2. Pertaining to the obsolete taxonomic order Pachydermata.
   • The anterior teeth are, however, displaced before the posterior ones are developed, although they have no vertical successors, which circumstance is also characteristic of the Elephant : the shape, the structure, and the mode of implantation of the molars of the Manatee quite accord with the...1840, Richard Owen, Odontography
3. Pertaining to or involving elephants.
   • Thai veterinarians interviewed during the course of this research particularly commented on pachydermal aversion to their presence.1996, Rita Ringis, Elephants of Thailand in Myth, Art, and Reality, page 44
4. Massive; elephantine.
   • […]which was why I was banished to the backyard while those with verbal-wallets bursting at seams, with pachydermal crock, did a sumptuous roast on the old lady's fears and pains […]2004, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr., Paa: a Tribute, page 117
5. Grainy.
   • The pachydermal exothecial cells of the capsule that are prevalent in rheophytes are lacking.1983, Lindbergia - Volumes 9-10, page 108