Definitions
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- noun slender, weak, and lightweight
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Examples
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These basic elements he named endomorphy, mesomorphy and ectomorphy, for they seemed to derive from the three layers of the human embryo, the endoderm, the mesoderm and the ectoderm.
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008
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No one is simply an endomorph without having at the same time some mesomorphy and ectomorphy, but we have these components in varying degrees.
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008
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According to Sheldon's system a 7-1-1 (seven-one-one) is the most extreme endomorph with minimal mesomorphy and ectomorphy.
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008
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His neighbor to the south has an equal measure of mesomorphy and ectomorphy, making him thin and muscular.
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008
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