one-legged

one-legged

See also: one legged

English

Etymology

one +‎ legged

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʌnˌlɛɡəd/

Adjective

one-legged (not comparable)

1. Having only one leg.

Related terms

• two-legged
• three-legged
• four-legged, etc

Translations

having only one leg

Belarusian: аднано́гі (adnanóhi) Bulgarian: еднокра́к (ednokrák) Czech: jednonohý Danish: enbenet Dutch: eenbenig (nl) Finnish: yksijalkainen (fi) French: unijambiste (fr) Georgian: ცალფეხა (calpexa), ერთფეხა (ertpexa), ერთფეხიანი (ertpexiani)

German: einbeinig Icelandic: einfættur Polish: jednonogi (pl) Russian: одноно́гий (ru) (odnonógij) Slovak: jednonohý Swedish: enbent (sv) Telugu: ఒంటికాలి (oṇṭikāli) Ukrainian: одноно́гий (odnonóhyj)

See also

• one-armed
• biped
• quadruped

Noun

one-legged (plural one-leggeds)

1. 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.