a. Zool. [SOFT a. 29.] Having soft bodies.

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1782.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2), IX. 6617/2. These tender and soft-bodied animals [sc. frogs].

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. xxxv. 655. In soft-bodied insects they [the legs] seem usually more firm and unbending.

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1846.  Patterson, Zool., 27. The molluscous or soft-bodied animals, which are known as shell-fish.

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1872.  H. A. Nicholson, Palæont., 59. No trace of the past existence of which has yet been obtained, or, from their soft-bodied nature, is ever likely to be.

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