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单词 leptosome
释义

leptosome

English

Etymology

lepto- (thin) + -some (body).

Adjective

leptosome (comparative more leptosome, superlative most leptosome)

  1. Narrow-bodied (in proportional to height or length).
    • 1948, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Anthropology: race, language, culture, psychology, pre-history, pp. 173–174:
      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.”

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:scrawny
  • slender

Antonyms

  • eurysome

Coordinate terms

  • mesosome

Noun

leptosome (plural leptosomes)

  1. A tall, narrow-bodied, angular person.
    Coordinate term: pyknic
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