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slender-bodied

slender-bodied adjective: of an animal or object, having a slim or thin body.

Adjective

slender-bodied (comparative more slender-bodied, superlative most slender-bodied)

  1. Of an animal or object, having a slim or thin body.
    • Rana zebra, zebra-frog, appears to be by far the largest of all the hylæ, or slender-bodied frogs, and is, according to Seba, a native of Carolina and Virginia.1807, G. Gregory, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Including the Latest Improvement and Discovery and the Present State of Every Branch of Human Knowledge, Volume 2, page 548
    • Among the less familiar groups of New World parrots are the conures, which are smaller and more slender-bodied than the amazons and have longer, pointed tails.1961, Oliver L. Austin Jr, Birds of the World, page 147

Examples of slender-bodied in a sentence

  • A slender-bodied shark with an enlarged squarish head1994, Gerald Robert Allen, D. R. Robertson, Fishes Of The Tropical Eastern Pacific, page 18:
  • Bats of both cryptic species eat mostly slender-bodied nematoceran Diptera, and their skull morphology is typical of bats that eat relatively soft prey items (Freeman 1981).1997, Royal Society (Great Britain) (contributor), Proceedings, Biological sciences, page 1698:

Forms of slender-bodied

comparativemore slender-bodied
superlativemost slender-bodied

Questions about slender-bodied

What does slender-bodied mean?
Slender-bodied means of an animal or object, having a slim or thin body.
How do you use slender-bodied in a sentence?
A slender-bodied shark with an enlarged squarish head
What part of speech is slender-bodied?
Slender-bodied is an adjective.

Words near slender-bodied in the dictionary

  1. slender-billed curlews
  2. slender-billed greenfinch
  3. slender-billed greenfinches
  4. slender-billed gull
  5. slender-billed gulls
  6. slender-bodied
  7. slender-horned gazelle
  8. slender-horned gazelles
  9. slendered
  10. slenderer
  11. slenderest

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