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MANTIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

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:

Nouns denoting animals

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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