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LEGLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does legless mean?
• LEGLESS (adjective)
The adjective LEGLESS has 1 sense:
1. not having legs
Familiarity information: LEGLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not having legs
Context example:
a legless man in a wheelchair
Antonym:
legged (having legs of a specified kind or number)
Context examples
The researchers concluded it was in fact a snake and not a mere legless lizard by studying the vertebrae, which were found with their ribs intact, in each part of the snake's body.
(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)
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