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Definition of Leglike
1. Adjective. Resembling or functioning like a leg. "Leglike appendages"
Definition of Leglike
1. Adjective. Resembling a leg or some aspect of one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leglike
1. resembling a leg [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leglike
Literary usage of Leglike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"Abdomen segmented but undifferentiated and without appendages or terminal spine ;
pedipalps leglike; one pair of stigmata leading into trachea;; ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"... maxillary palpi not fringed with hair, except a little tuft at the end of
second joint; leglike light rufous ..."
3. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"While the bony parts of their fins are rather leglike, as we shall see under
Skeleton, yet these are not at all stiff. In one case the limbs are mere ..."
4. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"... (2) numerous body segments bearing similar leglike appendages, (3) tracheae
with segmentally arranged apertures, and (4) excretory organs (malpighian ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1902)
"... and the orbits below them, spot between antennae, larger one at summit of
cheeks, pronotum, leglike, ..."
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