eurysome
English
editEtymology
editFrom eury- (“thick”) + -some (“body”).
Adjective
editeurysome (comparative more eurysome, superlative most eurysome)
- Broad-bodied; wide-bodied or thick-limbed in proportion to height or length.
- 1948, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Anthropology: race, language, culture, psychology, pre-history,, pages 173–174:
- The majority of such typings are bipolar, and they amount in the last analysis to saying that there are broader-bodied and narrower-bodied individuals in every group. To put this simple and in itself harmless finding learnedly, we substitute the terms “eurysome” and “leptosome.”
Synonyms
edit- (fat): See also Thesaurus:obese
- (stout): See also Thesaurus:stocky