(of an animal, especially a fish) having a body which is deeper (from back to belly) than it is wide.
（动物，尤指鱼）扁的
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The blacksmith is a perch shaped fish, elongate, but deep-bodied and compressed.
Largest of all the jacks is the mighty almaco, a deep-bodied amberjack with a dark olive-coloured diagonal stripe that stretches from mouth across the eye to around the dorsal fin.
Opaleye have an oval, deep, and compressed body that gives the impression of a deep-bodied perch with a rounded nose.
These fishes are laterally compressed (very thin when viewed from the front) but deep-bodied, appearing almost circular from the side. Strongly sheathed dorsal, pelvic, and anal fin spines accentuate the disk-like body shape.
Oncorhynchus kisutch are deep-bodied salmon with unique color characteristics.
Study of this new species, along with re-examination of S. popularis, indicates that Shonisaurus was not as deep-bodied as previously reconstructed.
Given the extremely deep-bodied construction of the borzoi, one is not surprised at the incidence of bloat (also known as gastric torsion) in this breed.
The USFWS will also map out critical-habitat areas for the Gila chub, a small-finned, deep-bodied member of the minnow family found in New Mexico and Arizona, and for four freshwater snails in New Mexico.
First move was to dip into the livewell and round up a pair of hand-size, thin, deep-bodied silvery fish - Atlantic bumper.