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Перевод: stumpy

[прилагательное]
короткий и толстый; коренастый; приземистый

Тезаурус:

1. Some of those boisterous brave men with stretched paper faces, with stumpy two-pincered hands, and tiny lidless eyes, had lost legs as well.
2. These well-protected dinosaurs each diversified into a number of genera; the three main groups are: the stegosaurs of the Jurassic, with paired plates along the back and a nastily spiked tail ( Stegosaurus ); the ceratopsians, horned, rhinoceros-like dinosaurs of the Cretaceous, including the familiar Triceratops ; the spiky armoured ankylosaurs, tanks on stumpy legs.
3. Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees.
4. Stumpy Martello towers, built to repel Napoleon, stand sentinel on the shoreline.
5. His stumpy, yellowed silver moustache rides proudly over his camel-like sneer as he strides to the back of the bar, probably to renegotiate his olive and yoghurt contracts with the owner.
6. An older lizard tends to produce a somewhat abbreviated, stumpy appendage, and sometimes the regeneration goes horribly wrong and the unfortunate animal finds itself growing not one but two or even three new tails at once.
7. By the middle of the Devonian the lobe-finned fish had acquired a suitable set of bones and muscles, and a stumpy fin arrangement that could easily be adapted to a four-footed locomotion.
8. I propose, therefore, to enjoy this last cigarette, warm my hands above the stumpy candle, and think with due care and compassion about the true story I have to relate.
9. Under the arch, look to your left at Plenik's dramatic staircase rising through three floors, severe with its hypostyle of stumpy Doric columns (1927-;31), later known as the Plenik Room.
10. By the late Carboniferous a vertebrate amphibian with weak stumpy legs had arrived, probably descended from the ichthyostegids.
11. For many years there have been proponents of the theory that one of the "lobe-finned" fishes included the ancestor of the tetrapods, and it is not difficult to imagine their stumpy fins, with a fleshy core, making the uneasy transition into a walking leg.
12. Somnolent now within its low grey walls and stumpy towers, it was once rich on salt, and powerful to boot.
13. Stumpy tails wagged.