Daddy Longlegs

Definitions: Daddy Longlegs

Daddy Longlegs

Noun

1. Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite.

2. Spider-like arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs.

Specialty Definition: Daddy longlegs

Daddy longlegs is an ambiguous common name referring to several unrelated terrestrial arthropods which have in common extremely long slender legs and little else. It's use is highly regional, so the "Daddy longlegs" of one area is completely different from another. It is common names like this which spurred development of the formal scientific naming system.

Daddy Longlegs may refer to:

A Harvestman, or member of the Opiliones.
A spider of the family Pholcidae, also known as a house spider or cellar spider.
A fly of the family Tipulidae (Crane fly).

Crosswords: Daddy Longlegs

English words defined with "daddy longlegs": Arachnida ♦ class Arachnida ♦ Father longlegs ♦ Harvest spider ♦ Phalangoidea ♦ Shephered spider. (references)

Etymologies containing "daddy longlegs": Phalangoidea. (references)

Commercial Usage: Daddy Longlegs

Domain	Title
Books	A Daddy Longlegs Isn't a Spider (reference) Daddy Longlegs (Bug Books) (reference) Daddy Longlegs at Birch Lane: 3.5 Inch Toy (reference) My Daddy Longlegs (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Daddy Longlegs

Language		Translations for "daddy longlegs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		дългоножка (crane fly). (various references)

Greek		αράχνη (spider, web). (various references)

Italian		tipula (cranefly, tipula). (various references)

Pig Latin		addyday onglegslay.(various references)

Russian		паук-сенокосец, долгоножка (crane fly, crane-fly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kosac. (various references)

Swedish		harkrank (crane fly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Daddy Longlegs

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-e-g-g-l-l-n-o-s-y"
	-5 letters: allonges, deodands, doggedly, galleons, gladdens, goldenly, langleys, soddenly.
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