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Meanings of longlegs in inglés
catalán
himantopus español
cigüeñela Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.
Sinónimos
Examples for "stilt"
Examples for "stilt"
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They had come to an area of scrubby brush on stilt roots.
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I stepped onto the dock and looked up at the stilt house.
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And the red land-crabs, on their stilt-like legs, crept nearer and nearer.
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Hundreds have lived in traditional wooden stilt homes by its banks for decades.
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John Enderby reined up his horse and looked the stilt-walker in the face.
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Perhaps the long-legs will define their own fate-andours-regardlessof our wishes.
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From out of the dusk-darkened snowfall came the largest of the long-legs.
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Is it true a full salt bag was rescued by a long-legs?
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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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These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.
Usage of longlegs in inglés
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Some scientists believe that climate change is making the daddy-longlegs more common here.
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But the sight of countless daddy longlegs scuttling for cover did.
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This wreckage is as close as I care to come to a daddy-longlegs.
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A big daddy-longlegs scuttled toward a refuge under the pool table.
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A daddy longlegs was high-stepping it up my sleeve.
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Mike fired the rubber band and the daddy longlegs scurried away from the impact site.
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Instead, he simply shook and threw his legs and arms gingerly, like a daddy longlegs.
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Screams of longlegs increased, and killing sticks were raised.
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Millipedes skittered as I shifted objects, and at one point a daddy longlegs high-stepped up my arm.
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The daddy longlegs was Renaud Pasteur.
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We put snow in her bed so that she would think she'd peed, and daddy-longlegs into her cooking ingredients.
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The dentist was one of the oddest-looking men I'd ever met, with wild, dandelion hair and a daddy-longlegs build.
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After lunch I was led into a large room filled with what looked like a giant, robotic daddy longlegs.
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Braan looked back at the other longlegs, Giant-one and One-arm, stumbling drunkenly over the prairie grasses in the far distance.
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He was shooting at a daddy longlegs on the ceiling with a rubber band that he would retrieve after each ricochet.
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Mike O'Rourke's last shot with the rubber band went wild and the daddy longlegs escaped into a crack in the roof.
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Frequent collocations
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