ADULT BODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adult body mean? 

• ADULT BODY (noun)
  The noun ADULT BODY has 1 sense:

1. the body of an adult human being

  Familiarity information: ADULT BODY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADULT BODY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The body of an adult human being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("adult body" is a kind of...):

anatomy; bod; build; chassis; figure; flesh; form; frame; human body; material body; physical body; physique; shape; soma (alternative names for the body of a human being)

Meronyms (parts of "adult body"):

bush; crotch hair; pubic hair (hair growing in the pubic area)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adult body"):

adult female body; woman's body (the body of an adult woman)

adult male body; man's body (the body of an adult man)

Holonyms ("adult body" is a part of...):

adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

 Context examples 

This protein plays a role in the transport of oxygen to tissues of the adult body.

(Hemoglobin Subunit Beta, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes hemoglobin subunit delta protein, plays a role in the transport of oxygen to tissues of the adult body.

(HBD wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in the transport of oxygen to tissues of the adult body.

(HBB Gene, NCI Thesaurus)