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Definition of "orange-legged" [orange-legged]

  • Having the shank orange-colored: as, the orange-legged hobby, Falco respertinus.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "orange-legged" in a sentence
  • "Winter just got a little sand-colored, orange-legged, breast-banded stake driven through its icy heart."
  • "Sleepy dunlin (I think ... though I was at first convinced they were purple sandpipers), an orange-legged ruddy turnstone, and a sweet spotty-flanked black-belly plover."
  • "The "new" amphibians included spiky-skinned, orange-legged rain frog, three poison dart frogs and three glass frogs, named for their transparent skin."