elongated
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
elongate /ˈiːlɒŋgeɪt/
▶verb (usu. as adj. elongated) make or become longer. ▶adjective Biology long; elongated.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘move away’): from late L. elongat-, elongare ‘place at a distance’.
'elongated' also found in these Oxford entries:
andalusite
- band
- beaked whale
- bichir
- bummalo
- burbot
- carpophore
- centipede
- cornu
- crus
- earwig
- eel
- eelpout
- elongate
- ergot
- escolar
- fusil
- graben
- gun microphone
- gunnel
- hake
- hippocampus
- horst
- jacana
- lark
- leek
- loach
- longhorn beetle
- lungfish
- magnetotail
- medulla oblongata
- mesosaur
- millipede
- mudfish
- myofibril
- myriapod
- otter
- oval
- paddlefish
- palisade layer
- palp
- papaya
- pipefish
- pod
- polytunnel
- proboscis
- prosenchyma
- red mullet
- ridge
- riffler
