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pachydermic

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms [syn: pachydermatous, pachydermal, pachydermous]

Usage examples of "pachydermic".

For several months he was seen wandering about with a toolbox that the gypsies must have left behind in José Arcadio Buendía’s days, and no one knew whether because of the involuntary exercise, the winter tedium or the imposed abstinence, but his belly was deflating little by little like a wineskin and his face of a beatific tortoise was becoming less bloodshot and his double chin less prominent until he became less pachydermic all over and was able to tie his own shoes again.