daddy-long-legs
Popular name for a crane fly.
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The original Spider, the daddy longlegs, mimics the performance of Standard & Poor's index of 500 leading stocks. For instance, we are allowed to retain sexist names for nonhumans, such as alewife, timothy grass, daddy longlegs, sweet william, and myrtle. Four years ago, paleontologists searching for fossils in a Scottish quarry found a cornucopia of carboniferous amphibians and arthropods, including the oldest known amphibian and the earliest daddy longlegs spider (SN: 4/13/85, p. |
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