mantis : Idioms & Phrases


genus mantis

  • noun type genus of the Mantidae: mantises
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mantis crab

  • noun tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages
    mantis crab.
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mantis prawn

  • noun a kind of mantis shrimp
    squilla.
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mantis religioso

  • noun the common mantis
    Mantis religioso; praying mantid.
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Mantis shrimp

  • noun tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages
    mantis crab.
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  • . (Zoöl.) See Sguilla.
Webster 1913

Praying insect, locust, ∨ mantis

  • (Zoöl.), a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis.
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praying mantis

  • noun the common mantis
    Mantis religioso; praying mantid.
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sea mantis

Sea" man"tis
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A squilla.
Webster 1913