eurysome

English

Etymology

From eury- (“thick”) +‎ -some (“body”).

Adjective

eurysome (comparative more eurysome, superlative most eurysome)

1. Broad-bodied; wide-bodied or thick-limbed in proportion to height or length.
   • 1948, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Anthropology: race, language, culture, psychology, pre-history,, pages 173–174:

     The majority of such typings are bipolar, and they amount in the last analysis to saying that there are broader-bodied and narrower-bodied individuals in every group. To put this simple and in itself harmless finding learnedly, we substitute the terms “eurysome” and “leptosome.”

Synonyms

• (fat): See also Thesaurus:obese
• (stout): See also Thesaurus:stocky

Antonyms

• leptosome

Coordinate terms

• mesosome