LONGLEGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does longlegs mean? 

• LONGLEGS (noun)
  The noun LONGLEGS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LONGLEGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONGLEGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Himantopus stilt; long-legs; longlegs; stilt; stilt plover; stiltbird

Hypernyms ("longlegs" is a kind of...):

limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "longlegs"):

black-necked stilt; Himantopus mexicanus (stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck)

black-winged stilt; Himantopus himantopus (stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings)

Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus; white-headed stilt (stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck)

Himantopus novae-zelandiae; kaki (blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt)

Holonyms ("longlegs" is a member of...):

genus Himantopus; Himantopus (major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills)

 Context examples 

As no one appeared but an inquisitive daddy-longlegs, who examined her work with interest, she went to walk, got caught in a shower, and came home dripping.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)