Meanings
comparative more leptosome · superlative most leptosome
- Narrow-bodied (in proportional to height or length).
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.”
1948, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Anthropology: race, language, culture, psychology, pre-history,, pages 173–174Synonyms: slender
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNarrow-bodied (in proportional to height or length).
Origin
From lepto- (“thin”) + -some (“body”).
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