| 词汇 | pachyderm |
| 词源 | pachyderm. Its thick skin gives the elephant its Latin name (pachy), as it does the rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and other an- imals and plants, too. A pachyderm can also be a thick-skinned person. Wrote John Keats: “A man cannot have a sensuous na- ture and be pachydermatous at the same time.” See elephant. |
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