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Daddy Longlegs

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Noun

1. crane fly, daddy longlegs

long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite

2. daddy longlegs, harvestman, phalangium opilio

spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Daddy Longlegs

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noun
1. British an informal name for a crane fly
2. Australian, US and Canadian an informal name for harvestman (sense 2)

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Daddy Longlegs

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Word forms: plural daddy longlegs
1. 
harvestman (sense 2)
2. 
crane fly

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Daddy Longlegs

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n. pl. daddy longlegs
1. Any of various arachnids of the order Opiliones, having a small rounded body and long slender legs. Also called harvestman.
2. Chiefly British A crane fly.

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