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Praying insect
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mantis
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various large insects of the order ''Mantodea'' that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs. 2 A green colour, like that of a mantis.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer [syn: mantid ] [also: mantes (pl)]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES praying mantis COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB pray ▪ We learned the swift, circular dance of the praying mantis . ▪ Manipulators, fed by red veins of hydraulic fluid, fold elbows-up beside her cheeks like legs of a ...
Usage examples of mantis.
The Mantis approached slowly, high and angular, tiptoeing through a series of sculptures.
A denizen with the head and upper body of a mantis swiped at Perdix with one massive forelimb.
He wished the Mantis phototropic camouflage was available on the open market, which it of course was not.
If you will permit me, Madame La Presidente, I will go to Mantes and see M.
Her boredom subsided in the early afternoon when they rolled into the town of Gram mantes, with its intact medieval city wall, its cobbled streets, quaintly gabled and timbered houses, and its ancient guild halls of rose-flecked Fabequais granite.
Azza bit down to immobilize the mantis, but she did not injure Reseda further.
He walked over to Azza and Reseda, who was hissing and chittering out a steady stream of mantis talk.
No one had ever seen anything like a Mantis scavenging or navvy-policing or hunting the assets of other mech cities.
Plus, cynically, Mahoney pointed out that it would be very unlikely for any Mantis troopie to surrender and be deprogrammable, unlike the average machine.
Like most farmers, Harry knew that her best friends apart from the domesticated animals were owls, blacksnakes, bats, honeybees, praying mantises, most spiders, swallowtails, and purple martins.
Mantis team procured from the Eryx Cluster match, according to preliminary analysis, all the capabilities of imperium-X.
I instructed my Mantis team to take the most direct way back from the Eryx regions toward Prime World.
That had been a small advantage humanity had over the roving, predator mechs, and if this Mantis was a sign, that thin edge was now lost.
Louis accompanied the cortege bearing away his daughter as far as the royal city of Mantes, where the six months old infant was consigned to the keeping of Robert of Newburgh, the dapifer and justice of Normandy, a man of unexceptionable rank and piety.
Mantis psywar training to know that he had just witnessed a power grab.