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- Slender - superl. - Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
- Slender - superl. - Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
- Slender - superl. - Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
- Slender - superl. - Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
- Slender - superl. - Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
- Slender - superl. - Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.
- Needle - n. - A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
- Lady's comb - - An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.
- Ladies' tresses - - A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
- Sphex - n. - Any one of numerous species of sand wasps of the genus Sphex and allied genera. These wasps have the abdomen attached to the thorax by a slender pedicel. See Illust. of Sand wasp, under Sand.
- Rush - n. - A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
- Strepsiptera - n. pl. - A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.
- Prawn - n. - Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus.
- Waspish - a. - Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
- Piliferous - a. - Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.
- Spicule - n. - A minute, slender granule, or point.
- Zoospore - n. - A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.
- Lucifer - n. - A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.
- Wanghee - n. - The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks.
- Skate - n. - Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.
- Zebu - n. - A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa. It usually has short horns, large pendulous ears, slender legs, a large dewlap, and a large, prominent hump over the shoulders; but these characters vary in different domestic breeds, which range in size from that of the common ox to that of a large mastiff.
- Runner - n. - A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
- Viticulose - a. - Having long and slender trailing stems.
- Xiphodon - n. - An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet, and small canine teeth.
- Hair - n. - A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
- Basidium - n. - A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.
- Claw - n. - A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
- Spindle-legged - a. - Having long, slender legs.
- Spindle - n. - The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
- Saucisse - n. - A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.
- Spill - n. - A slender piece of anything.
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- H5722 עֲדִינוֹ - 5722 עֲדִינוֹ - עֲדִינוֹ - - ʻădîynôw - ad-ee-no' - probably from עָדִין in the original sense of slender (i.e. a spear); his spear; Adino. - Proper Name Masculine - heb
- H689 אַקּוֹ - 689 אַקּוֹ - אַקּוֹ - - ʼaqqôw - ak-ko' - probably from אָנַק; slender, i.e. the ibex; wild goat. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4981 מִתְנִי - 4981 מִתְנִי - מִתְנִי - - Mithnîy - mith-nee' - probably patrial from an unused noun meaning slenderness; a Mithnite, or inhabitant of Methen; Mithnite. - Adjective - x-pn
- H4975 מֹתֶן - 4975 מֹתֶן - מֹתֶן - - môthen - mo'-then - from an unused root meaning to be slender; properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins; [phrase] greyhound, loins, side. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H8530 תַּלְפִּיָּה - 8530 תַּלְפִּיָּה - תַּלְפִּיָּה - - talpîyâh - tal-pee-yaw' - feminine from an unused root meaning to tower; something tall, i.e. (plural collective) slenderness; armoury. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H8645 תִּרְזָה - 8645 תִּרְזָה - תִּרְזָה - - tirzâh - teer-zaw' - probably from רָזָה; a species of tree (apparently from its slenderness), perhaps the cypress; cypress. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H6628 צֶאֶל - 6628 צֶאֶל - צֶאֶל - - tseʼel - tseh'-el - from an unused root meaning to be slender; the lotus tree; shady tree. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H2223 זַרְזִיר - 2223 זַרְזִיר - זַרְזִיר - - zarzîyr - zar-zeer' - by reduplication from זוּר; properly, tightly girt, i.e. probably a racer, or some fleet animal (as being slender in the waist); [phrase] greyhound. - Noun Masculine - heb