One of these last belongs to the new genus Hyracotherium of Owen, of the hog tribe, allied to Chaeropotamus, another is a Lophiodon; a third a pachydermcalled Coryphodon eocaenus by Owen, larger than any existing tapir.
The teeth of this last-mentioned pachyderm were at first, in 1840, supposed to belong to a monkey, an opinion afterwards abandoned by Owen when more ample materials for comparison were obtained.
With his trunk curled high above his great head the big pachyderm was solemnly twirling round and round in a sort of slow waltz and every time he brought a foot down it was with a crash that shook the forest about him.
Now as the man could run fast and from time to time another took his place and the elephant had to use a lot of effort in turning corners, it soon became evident that the big pachyderm was tiring of the exercise.
Its note of surprise quickly changed to a loud trumpet of terror as the great pachyderm saw swooping above it what must have appeared to it an aerial inhabitant even larger than itself.
But I'm sure our pachydermis up to it, if anyone is.
The large pachyderm could feel a tear welling up in his left eye, and he brushed it away with his trunk.
They were passing on silent as spectres, the tread of the ponderous pachyderm being noiseless as that of a cat.
In the Soissonnais there is found, at the same horizon, a great mass of lignite, enclosing some shells and bones of the most ancient Pachyderm yet discovered, the Coryphodon, which resembles at once both the Anoplotherium and the Pig.
The rolling waters had disengaged the mass of ice which had imprisoned the monstrous pachyderm for thousands of years.
This pachyderm and Rhinoceros tichorhinus are cited as characterising the loess in various parts of the valley of the Rhine.
Agonised yells to the gentleman who guided the deliberate steps of the pachydermfrom a coign of vantage on the back of his neck, awoke him to an appreciation of the situation.
Perhaps for hours longer--since the supply of water was inexhaustible; but it was brought to a conclusion which neither the great pachyderm himself foresaw, nor they who were the subjects of his aqueous dispensation.
He scratched beneath the great ears with the point of a sharp stick, and he talked to the huge pachyderm of everything which filled his black-thatched head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pachyderm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: elephant; hippo; mammoth
