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Definition of Elongated
1. Adjective. Drawn out or made longer spatially. "A prolonged black line across the page"
2. Adjective. Having notably more length than width; being long and slender. "The old man's gaunt and elongated frame"
Definition of Elongated
1. Adjective. extensive in length ¹
2. Adjective. stretched ¹
3. Verb. (past of elongate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elongated
1. elongate [v] - See also: elongate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elongated
Literary usage of Elongated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"In the first tribe we find the muzzle elongated, the mouth cleft and armed with
strong, pointed and trenchant teeth, and the lower jaw advancing beyond the ..."
2. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"elongated and Flattened Pebbles.—In metamorphic rocks pebbles and other ...
A pebble of quartzite elongated by compression in dynamic metamorphism. ..."
3. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1891)
"After the egress of I it was certainly elongated, though not so much as had been
... II \vas either round or elongated only very slightly as before. ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Leaves broadly linear, elongated, obtuse (4-27 шт. wide); raceme simple; capsule
abruptly 3-horned. seeds oblong with a fleshy red coat. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1868)
""Oa the Resistance of the Air to the Motion of elongated Projectiles having
variously formed Heads." By the Rev. F. BASH- FORTH, BD, Professor of Applied ..."
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