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leptosome

leptosome adjective: narrow-bodied (in proportional to height or length).

Adjective

leptosome (comparative more leptosome, superlative most leptosome)

  1. Narrow-bodied (in proportional to height or length).
    • The majority of such typings are bipolar, and they amount in the last analysis to saying that there are broader-bodied and narrower-bodied individuals in every group. To put this simple and in itself harmless finding learnedly, we substitute the terms “eurysome” and “leptosome.”1948, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Anthropology: race, language, culture, psychology, pre-history,, pages 173–174
    Synonyms:
    slender

Noun

leptosome (plural leptosomes)

  1. A tall, narrow-bodied, angular person.

leptosome meaning in Tamil

leptosome in Tamil

அழகன்

Synonyms of leptosome

Antonyms

Forms of leptosome

Adjective
comparativemore leptosome
superlativemost leptosome
Noun
pluralleptosomes

Origin of leptosome

From lepto- (“thin”) + -some (“body”).

Questions about leptosome

What does leptosome mean?
Leptosome means narrow-bodied (in proportional to height or length).
What is leptosome in Tamil?
Leptosome in Tamil is அழகன். See Leptosome meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is leptosome?
Leptosome can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near leptosome in the dictionary

  1. leptosols
  2. leptosomatic
  3. leptosomatics
  4. leptosomatid
  5. leptosomatids
  6. leptosome
  7. leptosomes
  8. leptosomic
  9. leptospermone
  10. leptospermum
  11. leptospermums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leptosome (page history and authors); leptosome (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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