Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An individual having a lean, slightly muscular body build in which tissues derived from the embryonic ectoderm predominate.
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- noun Someone with a
lean , only slightlymuscular body - noun bodybuilding : Theoretical body type in which a person has a high metabolism. Such a person can easily maintain a low fat physique, but does not add muscle or body weight easily.
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- noun a person with a thin body
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To fit a size 6 pair of jeans, you need narrower than average hips - an 'ectomorph' build.
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John Kruk, the ESPN analyst who was anything but an ectomorph during his playing days, said the signings show that baseball has returned to an understanding that physical appearance doesn't matter as much as quick wrists and live arms.
Will Cholesterol Kill Baseball? Matthew Futterman 2012
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I am a rather pale scrawny blue-eyed ectomorph of nearly pure Northern European ancestry, as far as I can tell.
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And for those of us who have lawns, the ease of strapping the mower on the back of the bike and pedaling out onto the grass to dismount and unload, is much more exciting than the sweaty ectomorph on sidigayporn.com.
Beasts of Burden: Long Bikes and Shiny Riders BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Gwyneth Paltrow may be a gangling ectomorph today, but she struggled to lose weight after giving birth to her second child in 2006.
Gwyneth Paltrow: Losing Baby Weight Was 'By Far Hardest Thing I've Ever Done' 2010
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I am a rather pale scrawny blue-eyed ectomorph of nearly pure Northern European ancestry, as far as I can tell.
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Gwyneth Paltrow may be a "gangling ectomorph" today, but she struggled to lose weight after giving birth to her second child in 2006.
Gwyneth Paltrow: Losing Baby Weight Was 'By Far Hardest Thing I've Ever Done' 2010
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She's an ectomorph (in the language of anthropometrics).
Gwyneth Paltrow In 'Vogue': Owns 2 Outdoor Pizza Ovens, Deep-Fat Fryer (PHOTOS) 2010
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Gwyneth Paltrow may be a "gangling ectomorph" today, but she struggled to lose weight after giving birth to her second child in 2006.
Gwyneth Paltrow: Losing Baby Weight Was 'By Far Hardest Thing I've Ever Done' 2010
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We know, as I observed in my last post, that her primary strategy has been to portray him as an effeminate, elitist, and fragile ectomorph who will be weak in the face of aggression, and who will be readily done in by America's more burly antagonists.
Stephen Ducat: Death Wish II: What Hillary Was Aiming at With Her Two Assassination "Gaffes" 2008
sonofgroucho commented on the word ectomorph
I'm not one of these---I'm an endomorph.
April 9, 2007