0 to become or make something become longer, and often thinner -- （使）变长；（使）延长；（使）变得细长
1 having a shape that is much longer than it is wide -- 细长的
Acanthoclinus are elongate fishes. 棘鮗属鱼的体型都十分细长。
Many plant species respond to shade by elongating the main stem and repressing lateral branch outgrowth so as to outgrow competitors and capture more sunlight.
With each passage through the hair cycle, the duration of the anagen phase decreases whereas the telogen phase elongates.
Following this approach, highly elongated plasmas can be easily handled as well as various separatrix configurations.
The eddy shapes are examined, and only the u-component, longitudinal eddies are found to be elongated in the downstream direction.
They are elongated with two adjacent loops at one end and a single long loop projecting in the opposite direction.
The double-pass grating stretcher two holographic gratings, 1800 lines 0 mm!, elongates the pulse to about 0.5 ns.
The dark staining highly heterochromatic elongated nuclei are 15.4-23.2 m long and 10.5-12.2 m diameter.
Oocytes were added to the elongated drop in the row.
