gracilized

English

Verb

gracilized

1. simple past and past participle of gracilize

Adjective

gracilized (comparative more gracilized, superlative most gracilized)

1. (anthropology) Exhibiting a reduction in bone mass as the result of evolution.
   • 1972 March 2, M Masali, “Body size and proportions as revealed by bone measurements and their meaning in environmental adaptation”, in Journal of Human Evolution, volume 1:

     The results show a fairly gracilized body build both in males and females, and a morphological convergence of the proportions of the two sexes.

   • 2011, JH Hinshaw, “Darwinian Evolution and Social History”, in Journal of Social History, volume 45, number 1:

     Wade argues that our pre-gracilized ancestors lived in a world closer to Hobbes than Rousseau.