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stubby

adjective as in short and thick

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At Monterey Car Week in August, the team showed off the skysphere, which morphs from stubby sports car to autonomous cruiser, extending its wheelbase as the driver's controls fold out of sight.

Images showed short, stubby cilia on the surface of the infected cells rather than the long projections found on healthy cells.

The stubby sausages, meanwhile, are straight off an English breakfast table.

Computers kept the SN8 level by flapping stubby fins attached to its base and nosecone.

More specifically, the dash-mount arm is so stubby that it can’t jiggle around.

But the key to positive identification was that stubby little finger on his left hand.

But how could they bronze that stubby little body, the melon head, the double chin?

Over time, as cells reproduce, our telomeres become shorter and shorter, until they become so stubby that the process stops.

He could take care of him when he got inside, got to that stubby .38 he had slipped into the glove compartment just in case.

The suns and winds of many seas had burned and scored his face, and a stubby mustache gave him a belligerent aspect.

Then there was a sling-shot, ferociously stubby, and rather confusingly boyish.

Mr. Van Britt blew his cheeks out until the stubby, cropped mustache bristled like porcupine quills.

Tenors are generally short, stubby men with brief necks, while baritones are for the most part tall, spare and long-necked.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stubby, such as: fat, heavyset, squat, stocky, stout, and stumpy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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