one-legged
See also: one legged
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwʌnˌlɛɡəd/
Related terms
Translations
having only one leg
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Noun
one-legged (plural one-leggeds)
- A plant, especially a tree.
- 2000, Lois J. Einhorn, The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul, →ISBN:
- In other words, people engage in communicative relationships not only with other people, but also with four-leggeds, one-leggeds, and no-leggeds, with trees, plants, and rocks, with the sun, moon, and stars, ...
- 2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113:
- We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.
- 2012, James David Audlin, The Circle of Life, →ISBN, page 256:
- The arrow, for instance, combines gifts of stone for the head (from no-leggeds, who live within the Earth), wood for the shaft (from one-leggeds, trees, who unite Earth and Sky, and resembling the bole), and feathers (from two-leggeds, who live in the Sky); the stone is its head (Thoreau called arrowheads "fossilized thoughts"), the shaft its body, the feathers its wings.
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