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Definitions of pachyderms in various dictionaries:
noun - any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant
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Elephants and rhinos |
Large animals whose taxonomic order is obsolete |
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May 24 2019 The Washington Post |
May 24 2019 L.A. Times Daily |
Oct 26 2015 USA Today |
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From the Greek for "thick-skinned", it's a collective name for hippos, elephants & rhinos |
Hippos & rhinos are also these, thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates |
Babar, Jumbo, et al. |
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Plural form of pachyderm. |
a very large mammal with thick skin, especially an elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus. |
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Pachydermata (from two Greek words pachys, "thick" and derma, "skin", meaning 'thick skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier and others, at one time recognized by many systematists. Because it is polyphyletic, the order is no longer in use, but it is important in the history of systematics. Outside strict biological classification, the term "pachyderm" remains commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, and hippopotamuses. * Cuvier's Pachydermata included the three families of mammals he called Proboscidiana, Pachydermata Ordinaria, and Solipedes, all herbivorous. They are now divided into the Proboscidea (represented among living species only by three species of elephants), the Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates, including horses, tapirs and rhinoceroses), the Suina (pigs and peccaries), the Hippopotamidae, and the Hyracoidea (hyraxes).* Cuvier himself defined Pachydermata as "animals with hoofs, nonruminants", whereas Storr had descri |