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Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.
n.
Any one of numerous species of long, slender Alcyonaria belonging to Virgularia and allied genera of the family Virgularidae. These corals are allied to the sea-pens, but have a long rodlike rhachis inclosing a slender, round or square, calcareous axis. The polyps are arranged in transverse rows or clusters along each side of the rhachis.
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Any one of numerous species of marine Bryozoa belonging to Vesicularia and allied genera. They have delicate tubular cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems.
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Having long and slender trailing stems.
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A coating of long, slender hairs.
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The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; called also ungula.
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Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
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Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
n.
The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
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Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
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Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.
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Producing long, slender twigs or shoots.
superl.
Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
n.
One of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished. They are regarded as specially modified zooids, of nearly the same nature as Avicularia.
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Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
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Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
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The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks.
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A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.
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Having the form of a straight rod; wand-shaped; straight and slender.
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A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.
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