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slender-bodied en · ADJ
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Of an animal or object, having a slim or thin body.
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: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: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:A slender-bodied shark with an enlarged squarish head
1994, Gerald Robert Allen, D. R. Robertson, Fishes Of The Tropical Eastern Pacific, page 18:
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