Meaning & use
leggy
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Having unusually long legs, or, of a plant, having a long, thin, sparse stem.
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The leggy foal stumbled a bit as it took its first steps.
The tomato seedlings grew leggy from not getting enough sunlight.
A note on using this word
Leggy is used both for people or animals with long legs and, in gardening, for plants that have grown tall and spindly due to insufficient light.
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