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  • 31stilt´like´ — stilt «stihlt», noun, plural stilts or (for 3, collectively) stilt, verb. –n. 1. one of a pair of poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the ground. Stilts are used for walking in shallow water, or by children,… …

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  • 32stilt-walker — stiltˈ walker noun • • • Main Entry: ↑stilt …

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  • 33stilt root — stilt root, = prop root. (Cf. ↑prop root) …

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  • 34Stilt-Man — Superherobox| caption =Stilt Man. Art by Scott Kolins. comic color = background:#ff8080 character name = Stilt Man real name = Wilbur Day publisher = Marvel Comics debut = Daredevil #8 (June, 1965) creators = Stan Lee Wally Wood alliance color =… …

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  • 35stilt plover — noun long legged three toed black and white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons • Syn: ↑stilt, ↑stiltbird, ↑longlegs, ↑long legs, ↑Himantopus stilt • Hypernyms: ↑shorebird, ↑shore bird, ↑ …

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  • 36stilt bug — any of various slender, long legged, brownish bugs of the family Berytidae, inhabiting dense vegetation: sometimes classified with the leaf footed bugs. [1890 95] * * * ▪ insect       any of about 100 species of delicate, slender bodied, slow… …

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  • 37Stilt sandpiper — Sandpiper Sand pi per, n. 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas}, {Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family {Tringid[ae]}. [1913 Webster] Note: The most important… …

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  • 38Stilt crab — Taxobox name = Stilt crabs regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Crustacea classis = Malacostraca ordo = Decapoda infraordo = Brachyura superfamilia = Ocypodoidea familia = Palicidae familia authority = Bouvier, 1898 subdivision ranks …

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  • 39Stilt (disambiguation) — Stilts can be: * Leg attached poles serving to increase one s height. See: Stilts. * Wading birds of the genera Himantopus or Cladorhynchus in the Family Recurvirostridae. See: Stilt. * The journal of the Australasian Wader Studies Group. See:… …

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  • 40Stilt (journal) — The Stilt (ISSN 0726 1888) is the journal of the Australasian Wader Studies Group (AWSG), a special interest group of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, also known as Birds Australia. It was first issued in 1981 …

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