ectomorph

名词 n.
/ˈɛktəʊmɔːf/    /ˈɛktoʊmɔːɹf/|/ˈɛktəmɔːɹf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone with a lean, only slightly muscular body
    — Also there was a woman I hadn't met, a chain-smoking French ectomorph whose job it was to make sense of records of public spending in the Ministry of Finance.
  2. Theoretical body type in which a person has a high metabolism. Such a person can easily maintain a low fat physique, but does not add muscle or body weight easily.
    — The ectomorph body type is characterized by narrow shoulders and hips and a lean build. Its naturally fast metabolism makes it easy for ectomorphs to lose or maintain body fat levels but more difficult to build muscle.

词形变化

ectomorphs plural

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Derived from ectoderm + -morph from William Herbert Sheldon. Equivalent to ecto- + -morph.
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