Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun daddy_longlegs

2 senses of daddy longlegs

Sense 1
crane fly, daddy longlegs -- (long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite)
       => dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron -- (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)

Sense 2
harvestman, daddy longlegs, Phalangium opilio -- (spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs)
       => arachnid, arachnoid -- (air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs)