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Meanings of longlegs in inglês

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himantopus
espanhol
cigüeñela

Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.

        himantopus
        Usage of longlegs in inglês
        1
        Some scientists believe that climate change is making the daddy-longlegs more common here.
        The Irish Times
        2
        But the sight of countless daddy longlegs scuttling for cover did.
        Too close to home
        3
        This wreckage is as close as I care to come to a daddy-longlegs.
        The Guardian
        4
        A big daddy-longlegs scuttled toward a refuge under the pool table.
        Dayworld
        5
        A daddy longlegs was high-stepping it up my sleeve.
        Cross Bones
        6
        Mike fired the rubber band and the daddy longlegs scurried away from the impact site.
        Summer of Night
        7
        Instead, he simply shook and threw his legs and arms gingerly, like a daddy longlegs.
        Say you're one of them
        8
        Screams of longlegs increased, and killing sticks were raised.
        Genellan: planetfall
        9
        Millipedes skittered as I shifted objects, and at one point a daddy longlegs high-stepped up my arm.
        Fatal Voyage
        10
        The daddy longlegs was Renaud Pasteur.
        Bones to Ashes
        11
        We put snow in her bed so that she would think she'd peed, and daddy-longlegs into her cooking ingredients.
        The Guardian
        12
        The dentist was one of the oddest-looking men I'd ever met, with wild, dandelion hair and a daddy-longlegs build.
        Deadly Décisions
        13
        After lunch I was led into a large room filled with what looked like a giant, robotic daddy longlegs.
        The Council of Dads
        14
        Braan looked back at the other longlegs, Giant-one and One-arm, stumbling drunkenly over the prairie grasses in the far distance.
        Genellan: planetfall
        15
        He was shooting at a daddy longlegs on the ceiling with a rubber band that he would retrieve after each ricochet.
        Summer of Night
        16
        Mike O'Rourke's last shot with the rubber band went wild and the daddy longlegs escaped into a crack in the roof.
        Summer of Night
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        Translations for longlegs
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        himantopus
        Longlegs through the time