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Meanings of long-legs in English
Catalan
himantopus Spanish
cigüeñela Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.
Synonyms
Examples for "longlegs"
Examples for "longlegs"
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Some scientists believe that climate change is making the daddy-longlegs more common here.
2
But the sight of countless daddy longlegs scuttling for cover did.
3
This wreckage is as close as I care to come to a daddy-longlegs.
4
A big daddy-longlegs scuttled toward a refuge under the pool table.
5
A daddy longlegs was high-stepping it up my sleeve.
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They had come to an area of scrubby brush on stilt roots.
2
I stepped onto the dock and looked up at the stilt house.
3
And the red land-crabs, on their stilt-like legs, crept nearer and nearer.
4
Hundreds have lived in traditional wooden stilt homes by its banks for decades.
5
John Enderby reined up his horse and looked the stilt-walker in the face.
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These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.
Usage of long-legs in English
1
Perhaps the long-legs will define their own fate-andours-regardlessof our wishes.
2
From out of the dusk-darkened snowfall came the largest of the long-legs.
3
Is it true a full salt bag was rescued by a long-legs?
4
Many gave credit to the long-legs for the colony's good fortune.
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He watched helplessly as the long-legs carried away the limp form.
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The smaller long-legs was rolled onto the litter and carried away.
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The long-legs with the sand-colored clothing were playing in the water.
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Below and downstream, Brappa watched the long-legs climbing onto their platform of wood.
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Shouts and screams erupted from the long-legs waiting at the switchback.
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The raft of the long-legs was between him and the island.
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The sand-colored long-legs was not a hunter, much less a god.
12
It was long-legs, sure enough, but shorn of his beautiful regalia.
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The umbrella lay like a recently swatted daddy-long-legs, expiring sadly on the ground.
14
Flames had belched from the stick held by the green-clothed long-legs.
15
The sliding hunter threw the rope to the long-legs who grabbed it greedily.
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The long-legs had arrived at their rendezvous point and were retreating in good order.
Long-legs through the time