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gracilize

verb

Etymology

From gracile + -ize.

  1. derived from *kerḱ-✻ — “to become thin; to wane”
  2. borrowed from gracilis — “slender, slim, thin; lean, meagre, scanty; simple, unadorned”
  3. borrowed from gracil
  4. suffixed as gracilize — “gracile + -ize”

Definitions

  1. To exhibit a reduction in bone mass due to the process of evolution.

    • No exact racial diagnostics can be made on the basis of the preserved cranial parts, but still it is obvious that it refers to the Mediterranide race that began to gracilize.

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