Crossword clues for mesomorph
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).
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.
WordNet
n. a person with a well-developed muscular body
Wikipedia
A mesomorph may refer to
- the mesomorphic somatotype, meaning mesomorphic body type, or a
- Mesophase, a mesomorphic state of matter.
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.