gracile
Example Sentences
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Judging from its unique adaptations, this was a particularly gracile and innovative predator that possessed clawed digits primed for pouncing onto the backs of larger animals.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2020
Early modern humans – more gracile, and perhaps quicker to adapt and take advantage of their environment – then migrated north from Africa to outpace and outlive the first Europeans.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2016
A short-snouted, orca-like skull shape is present in Temnodontosaurus eurycephalus, a markedly elongate, pointed rostrum is present in T. acutirostris and a markedly gracile, possibly edentulous rostrum is present in T. azerguensis, for example.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 30, 2014
Several remarkably gracile, long-limbed teiioid species – informally grouped together as the sprinter teiioids – are swift pursuit predators of other squamates.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2013
Sidwell was all he could imagine of sweet and dignified; more modest in bearing, more gracile, more— Monday at noon, and he still walked the streets of Exeter.
From Born in Exile by George Gissing
