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elongated, ppl. a.|ˈiːlɒŋgeɪtɪd, ɪˈlɒŋgeɪtɪd|
[pa. pple. of elongate v.]
1. Made longer; drawn out or extended to an unusual or unnatural length.
1751R. Cambridge Scribbleriad iii. 83 O'er all her Limbs were seen Th' elongated papillæ of the skin. 1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. I. vi. 217 An elongated maxim of Rochefoucault's. 1861Reade Cloister & H. I. 251 He stood transfixed..sudden horror in his elongated countenance. 1870F. Hall in Wilson tr. Vishnu-puráṇa V. 68 [Bhíshmaka is] the elongated form of Bhíshma. 1884Times (weekly ed.) 26 Sept. 6/3 The lover of elongated farces.
2. That is excessively long in proportion to its breadth, as if drawn out or extended.
1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 51 Two of these edges..present anteriorly an elongated surface. 1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. xxi. 305 One..has an elongated snout. 1863Berkeley Brit. Mosses iii. 13 The stem..consists more or less of elongated cells. 1877W. Thomson Voy. Challenger I. ii. 131 The heart, an elongated tube. |