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  • adjective having a relatively long body

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Examples

  • The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish.

    Paris Japonica: Researchers Claim Simple White Flower Has World's Longest Genome The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The small pale fawn or brindled cows are stocky and long-bodied, with half-moon horns.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The small pale fawn or brindled cows are stocky and long-bodied, with half-moon horns.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • They are shockingly gracile and incredibly long-bodied, with a shape that (when seen in dorsal view) has been likened to that of a champagne flute.

    A 6 ton model, and a baby that puts on 90 kg a day: rorquals part I Darren Naish 2006

  • Retrieved from the stomach of a sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus, the carcass is about 3 m long, long-bodied, and appears to have a camel-like head and a fluked tail.

    Cadborosaurus Darren Naish 2006

  • Retrieved from the stomach of a sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus, the carcass is about 3 m long, long-bodied, and appears to have a camel-like head and a fluked tail.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Broad and long-bodied, his short legs lent him the appearance of an ape.

    Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

  • They are shockingly gracile and incredibly long-bodied, with a shape that (when seen in dorsal view) has been likened to that of a champagne flute.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • As discussed above, I have noted on several occasions that large long-necked pinnipeds better explain sightings of long-necked aquatic cryptids than do hypothetical extant plesiosaurs, and I have also noted that long-bodied delphinidans or other odontocetes might explain some sightings of serpentine aquatic cryptids (Naish 2000, 2001a, 2003a).

    Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • I found the hot stream broadened out to a shallow, weedy sand, in which an abundance of crabs and long-bodied, many-legged creatures started from my footfall.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

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