Rather similar to 'Ingenia', though more gracile, is Conchoraptor gracilis. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
The logical outcome would be two sub-species, "gracile" and "robust" humans similar to the Eloi and Morlocks foretold by HG Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine. From Wordnik.com. [2006 October - Telic Thoughts] Reference
Two of them were human and three were gracile Haluk. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Drummond invited the stunned gracile scientists to explain. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
There was no more gracile public structure in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
It's also too gracile to come from most eagles or hawks I know of. From Wordnik.com. [Another Quiz] Reference
We were allowed close contact only with gracile-phase humanoid individuals. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
No, two fingers and a thumb, just like a thrint, but far, far more gracile. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
And surely Emily didn't think that the Haluk gracile body she wore was repulsive?. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
A gracile of lesser stature, who looked female to my bleary gaze, entered the room. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Modified alien individuals remained in the active, brainy, gracile phase permanently. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
A smallish, gracile-snouted pliosaurid, Peloneustes, is shown at far left in the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Perhaps a folk legend of relations between those robust Neanderthals and the gracile sapiens?. From Wordnik.com. [The silliest thing I read last week - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It was also impossible for anyone not gracile and able to look pretty in a conventional sense. From Wordnik.com. [Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol] Reference
White-coated gracile technicians continued to hover around the gleaming tanks, tending the immersed subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
So, ‘crurotarsans did it first’, evolving gracile, vaguely ostrich-like body-plans long before theropods did. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
A gracile, lightly built hominid, she was fully bipedal, with arms slightly longer than the arms of modern humans. From Wordnik.com. [C. Human Origins (4 Million to 1.8 Million Years Ago)] Reference
The Siriuans, though no less intelligent than their gracile allies relied more on their massive size, and strength. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
The gravity had made robust a frame that remained basically gracile; muscles rounded the curves of slim hips and long legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
A fearful young hominid male, tall and gracile, his head shaved and bowed, was being led out by two guards to the end of a pier. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Barrellike bodies were supported by four surprisingly gracile yet strong legs, the front pair of which were longer than the rear. From Wordnik.com. [Jed the Dead]
After twelve weeks in the tank, the human donor was ready, having acquired superficial gracile appearance as a reversible side effect. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Rare species in northern Kazakhstan are: Ledum palustre, Oxycoccus palustris, Petasites frigidus, Eriophorum vaginatum, and E. gracile. From Wordnik.com. [Kazakh forest steppe] Reference
P. conybeari, based on caudal vertebrae, chevrons and a large and gracile humerus, is a basal titanosauriform, perhaps a brachiosaurid. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
Supersaurus and Diplodocus hallorum, being relatively gracile diplodocids, probably weighed between 25 and 50 tons (Paul 1994a, b, 1997). From Wordnik.com. [Biggest…. sauropod…. ever (part…. I)] Reference
The high soil humidity allows the presence of pine woods (Pinus sylvestris) on granite rocks and sphagnum bogs (Sphagnum fuscum, Drosera rotundifolia, Eriophorum gracile). From Wordnik.com. [Kazakh upland] Reference
The tibia is long and gracile, bowed laterally and slightly caudally. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
The combined proportions of both humeri indicate a long gracile element. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
With what gracile loveliness did her neck bend as she spoke to Mrs. Lessingham!. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
Sidwell was all he could imagine of sweet and dignified; more modest in bearing, more gracile, more. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
Australopithecus, when in reality it is thought to be one of the smaller, gracile members of that genus. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
Elongate and gracile metatarsals with Mt III bearing a medio-laterally compressed proximal articular end. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Before he recognized the olive-green tailor suit which he had come to know, he noticed the firm yet gracile move of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Readjustment] Reference
Mt II (Figure 34E-J) is a long and gracile element preserving the distal articular condyles, and a damaged proximal epiphyseal expansion. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
'I guess you've stood it very well,' he remarked, gazing at her, as with quick, sure movements of her gracile hands she poured out the tea. From Wordnik.com. [Leonora] Reference
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