Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "well-developed".
Upon the platformlike shoulders of a large monoceroid quadruped rested a feathered flyer and a furry brachiator with well-developed hands.
Sam slid his canes into a rifle scabbard attached to the saddle, grabbed the pommel and back of the saddle and used his well-developed arm, shoulder and back muscles to pull himself to hip height even with the saddle, then swing one brace-stiffened leg over the saddle until he could sit upright.
They have also a well-developed bony palate, which in the Duplicidentata is imperfect, forming in fact but a narrow bridge from one jaw to the other.
The tree whose branches almost brushed against the window was a featherleaf, product of a well-developed local ecosystem which showed little sign of yielding to Terran imports.
Yours be the glory to discover, by personal experience, how long the kneepan can resist the terrible strapping down which you impose, in how short time the well-developed muscles of the throat can be reduced to mere threads by the constant pressure of the stock, how high the heel of a boot must be to make a short man tall, and how tight the Russian belt may be drawn and yet have wind enough left to sustain life.
While companies have well-developed processes for testing new technologies in a variety of ways in their current business, they usually lack processes for trying out early technologies in a variety of different markets that might become a new business.
All these girls had well-developed pelves, large mammae, and the general marks of womanhood, and bore living children.
The imperfections reassured rather than distressed Lindsay, for she had a well-developed suspicion of artifacts in flawless condition.
Enough so that she had a revelation when she walked into the station twenty minutes later to find Jack Murray in her office stripping off a wet buttondown shirt and yanking on a dry sweatshirt, giving her a front-seat view of well-developed muscles and soft, dark chest hair that trailed on down his belly to the belt of his pants.
There was something about the mad cackling sound of their laughter, their scruffy spotted fur, the way their backs sloped down from well-developed forelegs and shoulders to smaller hind legs giving them a cowering look, that irritated her.
We may cease marvelling at the embryo of an air-breathing mammal or bird having branchial slits and arteries running in loops, like those in a fish which has to breathe the air dissolved in water, by the aid of well-developed branchiae.
About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits.
The airs are exceedingly melodious, and the choruses bold and tuneful, with well-developed fugue subjects.
They belonged to our Empire, having a good civilization and enjoying a well-developed biological environment with ample fauna and flora.
John Smith had an extremely well-developed brain tumor in the parietal lobe.