pachypod

English

Etymology

From pachy- +‎ -pod.

Noun

pachypod (plural pachypods)

1. (zoology, sometimes attributive) Any of a group of animals with thick feet.
   • 1871, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume 8, page 313:

     In size and form of the bones this metapodium suggests comparison with the pachypod mammals, and most conspicuously, by the presence of five digits, with the elephant, in which the metapodial bones are equally large.