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MANTIS
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Irregular inflected form: mantes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer
Synonyms:
mantid; mantis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mantis" is a kind of...):
dictyopterous insect (cockroaches and mantids)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mantis"):
Mantis religioso; praying mantid; praying mantis (the common mantis)
Holonyms ("mantis" is a member of...):
genus Mantis (type genus of the Mantidae: mantises)
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