rough-legged hawk
roughleg
Buteo lagopus | large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers |
Ixodes pacificus
western black-legged tick | a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California |
Ixodes scapularis
black-legged tick | parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England), northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick) |
red-legged partridge
Alectoris ruffa | common western European partridge with red legs |
hairy-legged vampire bat
Diphylla ecaudata | similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus, of tropical America including southern California and Texas |
| bare bone | bone stripped of flesh |
| bare bones | (plural) the most basic facts or elements, he told us only the bare bones of the story |
denude
bare
denudate
strip | lay bare, denude a forest |
publicize
publicise
air
bare | make public, She aired her opinions on welfare |
| bare | lay bare, bare your breasts, bare your feelings |
plain
bare
spare
unembellished
unornamented | lacking embellishment or ornamentation, a plain hair style, unembellished white walls, functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete |
bare(a)
scanty
spare | lacking in amplitude or quantity, a bare livelihood, a scanty harvest, a spare diet |
bare
au naturel(p)
naked
nude | completely unclothed, bare bodies, naked from the waist up, a nude model |
bare-assed
bare-ass
in the altogether
in the buff
in the raw
raw
peeled
naked as a jaybird
stark naked | (used informally) completely unclothed |
bare-breasted
braless
toples | having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity, topless waitresses, a topless cabaret |
spindle-legged
spindle-shanked | having long slender legs |
bandy
bandy-legged
bowed
bowleg
bowlegged | have legs that curve outward at the knees |
bare
stripped | having everything extraneous removed including contents, the bare walls, the cupboard was bare |
bare
barren
bleak
desolate
stark | providing no shelter or sustenance, bare rocky hills, barren lands, the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes, the desolate surface of the moon, a stark landscape |
| legged | having legs of a specified kind or number, four-legged animals, a peg-legged man |
| straight-legged | having straight legs |
| three-legged | having or as if having three legs, a three-legged stool, a three-legged race |
rough-and-tumble
bare-knuckle
bare-knuckled | characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules, a rough-and-tumble fight, rough-and-tumble politics, undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism |
| bare | lacking its natural or customary covering, a bare hill, bare feet |
bare
unfinished | lacking a surface finish such as paint, bare wood, unfinished furniture |
bare(a)
mere(a)
simple(a) | apart from anything else, without additions or modifications, only the bare facts, shocked by the mere idea, the simple passage of time was enough, the simple truth |
unsheathed
bare | not having a protective covering, unsheathed cables, a bare blade |
leggy long-legged
long-shanked | having long legs |
bare(a)
marginal | just barely adequate or within a lower limit, a bare majority, a marginal victory |
| cross-legged | with the legs crossed, he sat on the floor cross-legged and meditated |