gracile

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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

But in the meantime, there he sits, not with his feet in the window or on a chair—he is a gentleman, I said, a Boston gentleman—the flower of a gracile ancestry.

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