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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
praying mantis
noun
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▪ For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis, frozen there in the glass, he wrote.
▪ He was very tall, perhaps six foot five, all elbow and forearm, like an enormous ginger praying mantis.
▪ I watched with interest - it was like observing the gyrations of an alien species, a praying mantis or something.
▪ Manipulators, fed by red veins of hydraulic fluid, fold elbows-up beside her cheeks like legs of a praying mantis.
▪ We learned the swift, circular dance of the praying mantis.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Praying mantis

Praying \Pray"ing\, a. & n. from Pray, v.

Praying insect, Praying locust, or Praying mantis (Zo["o]l.), a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis.

Praying machine, or Praying wheel, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream.

Wiktionary
praying mantis

n. 1 Any of various predatory, cannibalism insects of the family Mantidae that have a prayer-like stance. 2 (context regional in Europe English) A mantid of the species (taxlink Mantis religiosa species noshow=1).

WordNet
praying mantis

n. the common mantis [syn: praying mantid, Mantis religioso]

Wikipedia
Praying mantis (disambiguation)

The Praying mantis (often shortened to simply mantis) refers to any insect in the order Mantodea. Some other meanings are as follows:

  • the European mantis, Mantis religiosa, known in Europe as "the praying mantis"
  • Northern Praying Mantis, the Northern Chinese martial art from Shandong
  • Southern Praying Mantis, the Southern Chinese martial art of the Hakka people
  • Operation Praying Mantis, a 1988 naval battle between US and Iranian forces
  • Praying Mantis (band), a New Wave of British Heavy Metal band
  • Praying Mantis, a British prototype light tank of World War II
  • Mantisbt, a Bug Tracker
Praying Mantis (band)

Praying Mantis are an English rock band. Although a part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, they pursued a musical direction more melodic and AOR-sounding than their contemporaries.