slender-bodied

comparative more slender-bodied · superlative most slender-bodied

1. Of an animal or object, having a slim or thin body.

   A slender-bodied shark with an enlarged squarish head

   1994, Gerald Robert Allen, D. R. Robertson, Fishes Of The Tropical Eastern Pacific, page 18

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   Rana zebra, zebra-frog, appears to be by far the largest of all the hylæ, or slender-bodied frogs, and is, according to Seba, a native of Carolina and Virginia.

   1807, G. Gregory, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Including the Latest Improvement and Discovery and the Present State of Every Branch of Human Knowledge, Volume 2, page 548

   Among the less familiar groups of New World parrots are the conures, which are smaller and more slender-bodied than the amazons and have longer, pointed tails.

   1961, Oliver L. Austin Jr, Birds of the World, page 147

   Bats of both cryptic species eat mostly slender-bodied nematoceran Diptera, and their skull morphology is typical of bats that eat relatively soft prey items (Freeman 1981).

   1997, Royal Society (Great Britain) (contributor), Proceedings, Biological sciences, page 1698