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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.
Bamforth also noted that the hand was "relatively slender and gracile" and may have mimicked the arm and hand of a small adult or adolescent.
This "big toe" is not only more gracile in chimpanzees, but it curves toward the other toes enabling a greater flexing motion.
One gracile young warrior, who some researchers had previously speculated might be female, turned out to be male.
Brazil’s top star, Neymar, is a gracile wisp of murder, and France’s squad is, on paper, mercilessly stacked.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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