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spindle-legged

spindle-legged adjective: having spindly legs.

Adjective

spindle-legged (comparative more spindle-legged, superlative most spindle-legged)

  1. Having spindly legs.
    Synonyms:
    spindle-shanked

Synonyms of spindle-legged

Forms of spindle-legged

comparativemore spindle-legged
superlativemost spindle-legged

Questions about spindle-legged

What does spindle-legged mean?
Spindle-legged means having spindly legs.
What part of speech is spindle-legged?
Spindle-legged is an adjective.

Words near spindle-legged in the dictionary

  1. spindle poisons
  2. spindle toxin
  3. spindle toxins
  4. spindle tree
  5. spindle trees
  6. spindle-legged
  7. spindle-shanked
  8. spindle-shaped
  9. spindle-tree
  10. spindle-trees
  11. spindled

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