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A person with a well-developed muscular body
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mesomorph
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1940, from meso- + -morph , from Greek morphe "form" (see Morpheus ). Coined by W.H. Shelton; the reference is to the mesodermal layer of the embryo. Related: Mesomorphic (attested from 1923 in chemistry).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A mesomorph may refer to the mesomorphic somatotype , meaning mesomorphic body type, or a Mesophase , a mesomorphic state of matter.
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n. a person with a well-developed muscular body
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person with pronounced muscular development and low body fat. 2 (context bodybuilding English): Theoretical body type in which a person naturally has lower body fat and greater ability to achieve muscular development than average.
Usage examples of mesomorph.
Diving instructors were universally slim and fit, but Ray and Josep now had perfect mesomorph physiques, tanned to a golden sheen.
Cross, a cheerful blond mesomorph with thousands of awful jokes and a bottomless appetite for beer, had been a fullback surgeon, but a great fullback.
I entered the carceral system at the age of fifteen, my parents having concluded that a night or two spent in the county lock-up might address my aggressive tendencies, I strived to present a sturdy, unglamorous presence among the mesomorphs, the skin artists and the flamboyantly hirsute.
Nothing in my experience intimated that such men now or ever had existed as other than a fiction, yet they embodied a principle of anonymity that spoke to my sense of style, and so when I entered the carceral system at the age of fifteen, my parents having concluded that a night or two spent in the county lock-up might address my aggressive tendencies, I strived to present a sturdy, unglamorous presence among the mesomorphs, the skin artists and the flamboyantly hirsute.
Austin was so burdened with pulchritude, although she had observed that bodies here ran to a taut, lean look quite unlike the mesomorphs back home.
I call Baldor and start screaming right away: 'What kind of glue-sniffing, crackhead mesomorphs you got working for you?
Now she seemed to give life to the stone itself, infusing it, as if she were a form of mesomorph, changing shape as easily as humans changed their clothes.