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Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions
Answer for the clue "Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions ", 6 letters:
mantid
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. mantis (insect)
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mantid \mantid\ n. A mantis . Syn: mantis.
WordNet
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n. predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer [syn: mantis ]
Usage examples of mantid.
A mantid sprawled in a tangle of body segments and many-jointed limbs, its tiny blind face turned to the screen.
Slowly and with the utmost care, one of the mantids draws something out from under a pile of glass shards and ceiling panels, holds it up.
He looked around suddenly to find that a legion of spiders and beetles, mantids and other crawling things encircled him.
One that reminded him more of the large mantids he had seen delicately poised beneath the eaves of the buildings back at the base than a fellow seminarian?
Can we really assume that the birds and monkeys and also mantids are such wonderful observers (or that some very clever ones among them are) to notice a 'remote' resemblance and be repelled by it?