[ UK /ɡɹˈæsa‍ɪl/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹæsəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. slender and graceful
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How To Use gracile In A Sentence

  • Alternatively, Homo habilis may stand on the evolutionary line between the gracile Australopithecines and Homo erectus.
  • Gracile-phase cons work in the orbiting collection stations until they go lep. Sagittarius Whorl
  • She is gracile and delightful.
  • Only a few, fragmentary teeth are preserved, and judging by the fragments and the size of alveoli, the teeth were gracile.
  • Fossil evidence links human ancestry with populations that evolved from modern gracile morphology in Africa 130,000-160,000 years ago.
  • [164] Di mediocre statura, gracile in aspetto, di faccia alquanto lunga, il naso profilato e bello, li capelli aurei, gli occhi bianchi, la bocca alquanto grande con li denti candidissimi; la gola schietta e bianca ornata con decente valore, ed in essere continuamente allegra e ridente. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
  • This was also the age of ‘Lucy,’ Australopithecus afarensis, and the radiation of robust and gracile hominids which produced the genus Homo.
  • But today, there are eight putative species of early gracile hominid - and a number of the most recent and most ancient have characteristics that might force a re-interpretation of our earliest ancestry.
  • She reached across the table and set her gracile hand upon my rough one. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Sometimes called the Gymnogene, Polyboroides is a gracile, naked-faced raptor with grey and black plumage, but best known for the so-called double-jointedness present in its intertarsal joints. Archive 2006-05-01
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