BODY LENGTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does body length mean? 

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

1. the length of your body

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODY LENGTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The length of your body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)

 Context examples 

And, significantly, its head would have made up about a third of its body length, with big gills.

(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

The cotton rat has a stout body, small ears and a dark coat that can be dark brown or mixed buff and black, with a tail length that is 35% of its total body length.

(Cotton Rat, NCI Thesaurus)