PACHYDERMIC

pachydermatous, pachydermal, pachydermic, pachydermous

(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

pachydermic (comparative more pachydermic, superlative most pachydermic)

(medicine) Characterized by or characteristic of pachydermy.

Pertaining to the obsolete taxonomic order Pachydermata.

Pertaining to or involving elephants.

Massive; elephantine.

Ponderous; slow and deliberate.

Thick-skinned; insensitive.

Source: Wiktionary



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25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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