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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
elongated
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Eucalyptus trees grow very tall and have elongated leaves.
▪ The candle cast its elongated shadow across the wall.
▪ The lizard's body is thin and elongated, enabling it to squeeze into cracks and crevices.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It has a slender torpedo-shaped body with slightly elongated finnage.
▪ Of these elongated seats those contoured to give good support to the thighs and buttocks were most popular.
▪ The elongated seats were much preferred.
▪ The flesh was thinly spread upon the elongated skull, the motionless hands were bony claws.
▪ The shape of the elongated spiky dorsal fin is reflected in the sweep of the flowing ventral fins.
▪ Their secret lies in their enormously elongated toes, which spread their weight over a wide area of lily leaf.
▪ Transtab A further development of Transpower, incorporating an elongated stability element.
▪ With this syndrome, the body is tall and thin, the limbs are elongated, as are the toes and fingers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
elongated

elongated \elongated\ adj.

  1. having a length noticeably longer than the width.

    Syn: elongate.

  2. rendered longer.

    Syn: lengthened.

Wiktionary
elongated
  1. 1 extensive in length 2 stretched 3 (context of a polyhedron English) Having been modified by placing an prism in the middle of the polyhedron. v

  2. (en-past of: elongate)

WordNet
elongated
  1. adj. drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page" [syn: extended, lengthened, prolonged]

  2. having notably more length than width; being long and slender; "an elongate tail tapering to a point"; "the old man's gaunt and elongated frame" [syn: elongate]

Usage examples of "elongated".

The little masses of aggregated matter are of the most diversified shapes, often spherical or oval, sometimes much elongated, or quite irregular with thread or necklacelike or clubformed projections.

The pedicel is somewhat flattened, and is formed of several rows of elongated cells, filled with purple fluid or granular matter.

In the centre there is a group of elongated, cylindrical cells of unequal lengths, bluntly pointed at their upper ends, truncated or rounded at their lower ends, closely pressed together, and remarkable from being surrounded by a spiral line, which can be separated as a distinct fibre.

Their glands are much elongated, and lie embedded on the upper surface of the pedicel, instead of standing at the apex.

D, namely, the formation of an extremely minute sphere at one end of an elongated mass.

The stream flows at an irregular rate, up one wall and down the opposite one, generally at a slower rate across the narrow ends of the elongated cells, and so round and round.

But by being thus spread out, and from the cells of the disc not being so much elongated as those of the tentacles, it loses force, and here travels much more slowly than down the pedicels.

Ireland, are much elongated, and gradually widen from the footstalk to the bluntly pointed apex.

The sensitive filaments are formed of several rows of elongated cells, filled with purplish fluid.

The pedicels consist of single elongated cells, with colourless, extremely delicate walls, marked with the finest intersecting spiral lines.

I observed that the protoplasm had shrunk a little from the walls of the single elongated cells forming the pedicels.

The pedicel itself is formed of an elongated cell, surmounted by a short one.

I picked out five bladders which seemed very full, and found in them four, five, eight, and ten crustaceans, and in the fifth a single much elongated larva.

The two terminal cells of the papillae first become much elongated in a line parallel to the inner surface of the bladder.

The many glands of diverse shapes attached to the valve and round the collar in the previous species are here absent, with the exception of about a dozen of the two-armed or transversely elongated kind, which are seated near the borders of the valve, and are mounted on very short footstalks.