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单词 gracile
释义 grac·ile
I. \ˈgrasəl also -(ˌ)sil or -ˌsīl\ adjective
Etymology: Latin gracilis; perhaps akin to Old Norse horr emaciation, Latin cracent-, cracens slender, Sanskrit kṛśa emaciated, kṛśyati to become emaciated
1.
 a. : slender, thin, slight
  < the gracile hermit's lunch — James Merrill >
  < the human remains … indicate a gracile people with small teeth — D.A.Hooijer >
 b. : gracefully slender or slight
  < her gracile and candid girlhood — Joseph Hergesheimer >
  < three gracile, rosy-fleshed women — Time >
  < her red coarse little hands which did not seem to belong to those gracile arms — Arnold Bennett >
2. : graceful
 < lifted her head high for an instant, with the gracile motion a seal has — R.P.Warren >
 < a gracile writer, thinker, and teacher — Lincoln Kirstein >
grac·ile·ness noun -es
II. adjective
(-s)
: of, relating to, resembling, or being a primitive group of relatively small slender hominids of the genus Australopithecus (as A. africanus) characterized especially by molars and incisors of similar size that are adapted to a diet including both plant materials and animal flesh — compare robust herein
gracile noun
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