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Gracile
Gracile meaning
Lean, slender, thin. | Of an animal or skeletal element: having a slender frame. | Graceful or gracefully slender.
Example sentences (3)
It was seen as intermediary between gracile Australopithecus and Homo.
The shafts of the bones are often thin (gracile) and become thinner during growth.
The simplest procedure is that followed by many species of Anopheles ; like many other gracile species of aquatic insects, females just fly over the water, bobbing up and down to the water surface and dropping eggs more or less singly.