Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

slender-bodied

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English

Syllables: slen-der--bod-ied
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"A slender-bodied shark with an enlarged squarish head"
"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)."

Inflected Forms

more slender-bodied (comparative) most slender-bodied (superlative)

Synonyms

slim-bodied thin-bodied

Questions

What does slender-bodied mean?: Of an animal or object, having a slim or thin body.

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