Definition of "thick-legged" []

• Having thick legs, as an insect.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The beetle stood full-square in the yellow centre of an ox-eye daisy eating its pollen, rays of white petals around him: Oedemera noblis, a thick-legged flower beetle of shiny metallic green with slightly parted elytra wing-cases and strangely thickened thighs on the rear pair of legs used in mating."
• "I’ll be forty-two next yeartoo old and thick-legged to plow uphill through snow that makes my hips ache."
• "Short-haired, red-faced and thick-legged, MAFGT is butcher than Rosa Kleb on testosterone injections - and, for some reason, still goes by the title of Miss or Ms at the age of 47."