Gracilis

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Gracilis, a Latin adjective meaning slender, graceful or gracile, may refer to :

Anatomy

• Fasciculus gracilis or Gracile fasciculus, the tract of Goll, a bundle of axon fibres in the dorsomedial spinal cord
• Gracilis muscle, the most superficial muscle on the medial side of the thigh
• Nucleus gracilis, one of the dorsal column nuclei

Species, subspecies, synonyms, hybrids and varieties

• Equus caballus gracilis vacuous entry, possibly facetious
• Euglena gracilis a single celled eukaryotic alga
• Uropsilus gracilis – gracile shrew mole
• Mentha × gracilis – a mint hybrid
• Xantusia gracilis – sandstone night lizard
• Spiranthes lacera var. gracilis, a subspecies in the orchid species Spiranthes lacera and the genus Spiranthes found in Ohio
• Ulmus minor subsp. minor 'Umbraculifera Gracilis'
• Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis, the American stinging nettle, a subspecies in the plant species Urtica dioica found in North America
• Utricularia neglecta f. gracilis, a synonym for Utricularia australis, a plant species

See also

• Graciliscincus, a species of Scincidae lizard
• Gracilisuchus, the "graceful crocodile", an extinct genus of tiny crurotarsan (crocodilians ancestors) from the Middle Triassic
• List of Roman cognomina
• Trinomys gratiosus -- Gracile Atlantic Spiny-rat