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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

eurysome en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈjʊəɹɪ.səm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈjʊɹə.səm/ (General-American)

Etymology

From eury- (“thick”) + -some (“body”).

Meanings

  1. Broad-bodied; wide-bodied or thick-limbed in proportion 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:

Forms

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more eurysome Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most eurysome Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

leptosome

Coordinates

mesosome