longneck
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- noun
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animal de cuello largo
- He darted back and stood still, spear arm drawn back, facing the longneck squarely.
- a great longneck
Examples
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You will wish a thousand times that the longneck had eaten you, rather than that you had lived to become Gasam's queen, or wife, or toy.
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The memory of Gasam and Larissa and the longneck still burned within him.
Fiction book (1990) -
Look, it's the rock that looks like a Longneck, just like my mother said.
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MOTHER: Well, it's a long way yet, past the great rock that looks like a Longneck, and past the mountains that burn.
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Follow the bright circle past the great rock that looks like a Longneck and past the mountains that burn.
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Its legs were long and slender, yet they looked as powerful as those of a longneck.
Fiction book (1990) -
He had slain a longneck single-handed, something never done before in Shasinn history.
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He recognized the wounds, some of which he had inflicted himself: it was the longneck they had fought on one night during the Calving Festival, which now seemed so long ago.
Fiction book (1990) -
There had never been such a herd before, a Longneck, a Three-horn, a Bigmouth, a Flyer, and a Spiketail, all together, all knowing that if they lost their way, they would starve or find themselves in Sharptooth's shadow.
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The longneck is one of the tallest animals in the world, reaching heights of up to 20 feet.
Synonyms
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A very tall African animal with a long neck and spots that eats leaves from trees
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A very large dinosaur with a long neck and tail that ate plants and walked on four legs
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A large, long-necked plant-eating dinosaur from the Jurassic with longer front legs than back legs
How Long
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Longneck is a simple word made from long and neck, so it literally means 'long neck' and is used for animals like giraffes or some dinosaurs that have a very tall, thin neck.