NOUN
- spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs
- long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite
How To Use daddy longlegs In A Sentence
- He has never been partial to the supports that, like the legs of daddy longlegs spiders, angle out from lower decks to hold them upright while their keels rest on the forest floor, but there was no better way to park a sharp-keeled ship on land. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Channeling Characters
- Meanwhile, witches' brooms serve as a safe haven for daddy longlegs and pseudoscorpions.
- I'd love to make wildlife documentary about woodlice living in your house; Daddy Longlegs must seem gigantic, if you're a woodlouse.
- Cave crickets and harvestmen or ‘daddy longlegs’ that live inside the caves during the day and feed outside the caves at night contribute important nutrients to the cave ecosystem.
- It looks like daddy longlegs are growing out of her eye sockets. HIGH BEFORE HOMEROOM
- The 400-million-year-old fossil organ belongs to a harvestmen or daddy longlegs, a non-web-spinning arachnid, related to mites and ticks.
