ectomorph

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Etymology

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

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Noun

ectomorph (plural ectomorphs)

  1. Someone with a lean, only slightly muscular body
    • 1990, Robert Klitgaard, Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa:
      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. (bodybuilding): 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.
A strongly marked example of an ectomorphic body type.

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