legless

• The kiwi is nowhere in sight—it's been replaced by a tiki goddess—armless, legless, with a blunt chiseled head that's been gazing out over this sea for a trillion years. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
• Each of these caverns except the last of them was cluttered with the rubbish which usually encumbers the cellars of old houses: broken bicycles, old mould-grown leather cases, wooden crates, legless or armless chairs, cracked china vessels, yellowing newspapers bundled up with string, and in heaps, the nameless unidentifiable cylinders and tubes and rods and rings and spirals of metal which once, long ago, bolted or screwed or linked something on to something else. —  A Demon In My View
• The shepherd saw only that the thing had a shape vaguely resembling a legless, headless bat of a distinctive bronze color The sheep-herder was astounded, puzzled; for no motor roar had accompanied the fast-flying night phantom. —  006 - The Red Skull
• In the case of Casu Marzu, these maggots - legless and clawless, dragging themselves through by hooked teeth - will release an enzyme during their digestion that causes the pecorino's fat to putrefy. —  mental_floss Blog
• The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of various flies of the order Diptera, often found in decaying matter. —  Latest Articles

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