gracile

Example Sentences

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Judging from its unique adaptations, this was a particularly gracile and innovative predator that possessed clawed digits primed for pouncing onto the backs of larger animals.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020

Early modern humans – more gracile, and perhaps quicker to adapt and take advantage of their environment – then migrated north from Africa to outpace and outlive the first Europeans.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2016

Amphibolurines include long-tailed, superficially iguana-like rainforest and woodland forms, short-snouted, spiny-bodied animals of dry woodlands and deserts, and a large number of slender, highly gracile semi-arboreal and desert-dwelling specialists.

From Scientific American • Jan. 17, 2014

Several remarkably gracile, long-limbed teiioid species – informally grouped together as the sprinter teiioids – are swift pursuit predators of other squamates.

From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013

She heard it, too, for the gracile fingers fell from the strings.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie