Definitions
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- adjective having a relatively long body
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Examples
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The length of that code easily beats its nearest competitor, a long-bodied muck dweller known as the marbled lungfish.
Paris Japonica: Researchers Claim Simple White Flower Has World's Longest Genome The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The small pale fawn or brindled cows are stocky and long-bodied, with half-moon horns.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The small pale fawn or brindled cows are stocky and long-bodied, with half-moon horns.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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They are shockingly gracile and incredibly long-bodied, with a shape that (when seen in dorsal view) has been likened to that of a champagne flute.
A 6 ton model, and a baby that puts on 90 kg a day: rorquals part I Darren Naish 2006
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Retrieved from the stomach of a sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus, the carcass is about 3 m long, long-bodied, and appears to have a camel-like head and a fluked tail.
Cadborosaurus Darren Naish 2006
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Retrieved from the stomach of a sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus, the carcass is about 3 m long, long-bodied, and appears to have a camel-like head and a fluked tail.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Broad and long-bodied, his short legs lent him the appearance of an ape.
Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008
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They are shockingly gracile and incredibly long-bodied, with a shape that (when seen in dorsal view) has been likened to that of a champagne flute.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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As discussed above, I have noted on several occasions that large long-necked pinnipeds better explain sightings of long-necked aquatic cryptids than do hypothetical extant plesiosaurs, and I have also noted that long-bodied delphinidans or other odontocetes might explain some sightings of serpentine aquatic cryptids (Naish 2000, 2001a, 2003a).
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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I found the hot stream broadened out to a shallow, weedy sand, in which an abundance of crabs and long-bodied, many-legged creatures started from my footfall.
The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006
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