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Definition of Body length
1. Noun. The length of your body.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Body Length
Literary usage of Body length
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"body length 0.45 mm., width 0.2 mm. Tail length 0.33 mm. by 0.05 to 0.06 mm. ...
body length o. 18 mm., width 0.09 mm. Tail 0.14 mm. in length by 0.03 mm. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1887)
"... equaling in width the body- length, the border not revolute ; cuticular surface
very minutely tubercu- late; contractile vesicle double ; pedicle from ..."
3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1907)
"Young female, body, length 2.28 mm., width .72 mm.: head, length .5 mm., ...
The measurements of the female are: body, length 3.21 mm., width .9 mm.; head, ..."
4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"The heavy black line in each case represents the body length, same magnification
... 13) are 25.5 per cent, of the total body length of the same individual. ..."
5. Natural History of New York by New York (State). Natural History Survey, James Ellsworth De Kay (1842)
"Tail longer than head and body. Length 29-5. Largest of the genus. ... Tail less
than length of head and body. Length 20-1. GENUS PTEROMYS. Illiger. ..."
6. Feeding Experiments with Isolated Food-substances by Thomas Burr Osborne, Lafayette Benedict Mendel, Edna Louise Ferry (1911)
"Dr. Hatai further reports as follows: Since it seems to be[the least variable
character, I have selected the body- length as the basis for computation. ..."
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