a muscle in the inner side of the thigh, the action of which assists in drawing the legs inward and in bending the knee
Word origin
[1605–15; ‹ NL; L: gracile]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classic, independent, inverse, package, pivot
Examples of 'gracilis' in a sentence
gracilis
`Pulchrapollia' translates literally as `beautiful Polly ', and ` gracilis ' means slender.
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