Definitions
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- adjective having a smooth body
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Examples
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Highly mobile insects, many of which have a dense covering of body hairs which can trap the tiny ash particles, such as honey and pollination bees, are more susceptible to ash than smooth-bodied insects such as beetles.
Volcanic Ash—Effects on Agriculture and Mitigation Strategies 2009
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Highly mobile insects, many of which have a dense covering of body hairs which can trap the tiny ash particles, such as honey and pollination bees, are more susceptible to ash than smooth-bodied insects such as beetles.
Volcanic Ash—Effects on Agriculture and Mitigation Strategies 2009
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I love men with natural body hair and find smooth-bodied grown men disgustingly pre-pubescent looking.
You're living in the monkey house. Ann Althouse 2008
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Large, smooth-bodied servitors came forward to take the not-horses to a stable that complimented the house without obtruding.
This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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It showed a neat, smooth-bodied robot with a pleasantly-smiling approximation of a human face.
Mirage Tiedemann, Mark W. 2000
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Upon one side the three Nevians; amphibious, cone-headed, loop-necked, scale-bodies, four-legged things to us monstrosities: upon the other the three humans, air-breathing, rounded-headed, shortnecked, smooth-bodied, two-legged creatures equally monstrous to the fastidious Nevians.
Triplanetary 1927
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What started out as a sketch of a smooth-bodied automobile called the "XP-715" by General M ...
TMNews.com 2010
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What started out as a sketch of a smooth-bodied automobile called the "XP-715" by General M ...
TMNews.com 2010
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The smooth-bodied, baby-faced images that adorned advertising campaigns and men's magazines are being replaced with men sporting beards, moustaches and body hair.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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The smooth-bodied, baby-faced images that adorned advertising campaigns and men's magazines are being replaced with men sporting beards, moustaches and body hair.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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