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brevilineal

brevilineal adjective: short and stocky.

Adjective

brevilineal (comparative more brevilineal, superlative most brevilineal)

  1. Short and stocky.
    • The study of biotype also led to interesting conclusions: 53 patients were normolineal, 28 longilineal and only 19 brevilineal; actually , some represented an intermediate type , to which White has called attention: athletic, muscular, overweight subjects, whome Sheldon classified as...1969, Carlo Sirtori, Fondazione Carlo Erba, Medicine, Biology, and Surgery at the Carlo Erba Foundation, page 589
    • The three basic body types marked different fertility types: brevilineal was cast as the most fertile woman at the top of the scale, longuilineal at the bottom, with the normal types in the middle.2013, Yolanda Eraso, Representing Argentinian Mothers, page 71

Forms of brevilineal

comparativemore brevilineal
superlativemost brevilineal

Questions about brevilineal

What does brevilineal mean?
Brevilineal means short and stocky.
What part of speech is brevilineal?
Brevilineal is an adjective.

Words near brevilineal in the dictionary

  1. brevifurcate
  2. breviger
  3. brevigers
  4. brevigline
  5. brevigraph
  6. brevilineal
  7. brevilingual
  8. Breville
  9. Brevilles
  10. breviloquence
  11. breviloquent

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