GENUS MANTIS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Mantidae: mantises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Mantis" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Mantis"):

mantid; mantis (predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer)

Holonyms ("genus Mantis" is a member of...):

family Manteidae; family Mantidae; Manteidae; Mantidae (mantises)

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