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  • adjective having a smooth body

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Examples

  • Highly mobile insects, many of which have a dense covering of body hairs which can trap the tiny ash particles, such as honey and pollination bees, are more susceptible to ash than smooth-bodied insects such as beetles.

    Volcanic Ash—Effects on Agriculture and Mitigation Strategies 2009

  • Highly mobile insects, many of which have a dense covering of body hairs which can trap the tiny ash particles, such as honey and pollination bees, are more susceptible to ash than smooth-bodied insects such as beetles.

    Volcanic Ash—Effects on Agriculture and Mitigation Strategies 2009

  • I love men with natural body hair and find smooth-bodied grown men disgustingly pre-pubescent looking.

    You're living in the monkey house. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Large, smooth-bodied servitors came forward to take the not-horses to a stable that complimented the house without obtruding.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • It showed a neat, smooth-bodied robot with a pleasantly-smiling approximation of a human face.

    Mirage Tiedemann, Mark W. 2000

  • Upon one side the three Nevians; amphibious, cone-headed, loop-necked, scale-bodies, four-legged things to us monstrosities: upon the other the three humans, air-breathing, rounded-headed, shortnecked, smooth-bodied, two-legged creatures equally monstrous to the fastidious Nevians.

    Triplanetary 1927

  • What started out as a sketch of a smooth-bodied automobile called the "XP-715" by General M ...

    TMNews.com 2010

  • What started out as a sketch of a smooth-bodied automobile called the "XP-715" by General M ...

    TMNews.com 2010

  • The smooth-bodied, baby-faced images that adorned advertising campaigns and men's magazines are being replaced with men sporting beards, moustaches and body hair.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • The smooth-bodied, baby-faced images that adorned advertising campaigns and men's magazines are being replaced with men sporting beards, moustaches and body hair.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

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