a person with a muscular body build: said to be correlated with somatotonia
Compare ectomorph, endomorph (sense 1)
mesomorph in American English
(ˈmɛsəˌmɔrf; ˈmɛzəˌmɔrf)
noun
a person of the mesomorphic physical type
mesomorph in American English
(ˈmezəˌmɔrf, ˈmes-, ˈmizə-, -sə-)
noun
a person of the mesomorphic type
Word origin
[1935–40; meso- + -morph]This word is first recorded in the period 1935–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Rhodesian ridgeback, fluorocarbon, prime mover, roomette, unit trustmeso- is a combining form meaning “middle,” used in the formation of compound words. Otherwords that use the affix meso- include: Mesozoic, mesoblast, mesopause, mesoscale, mesosome; -morph is a combining form meaning “form, structure,” of the kind specified by the initialelement. Other words that use the affix -morph include: biomorph, endomorph, paramorph, rhizomorph, skeuomorph
Examples of 'mesomorph' in a sentence
mesomorph
Everyone by now should be more accepting of different body types: endomorph, ectomorph, mesomorph.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The sporting mesomorph was driven by somatotonia, 'bodily assertiveness and a desire for muscular activity'.
The Times Literary Supplement (2015)
You are one of the lucky ones from an exercise perspective, if you are a mesomorph.