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Mantis

noun

(pl. mantises, mantes)

Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer. Synonym: mantid.

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... feebler light through the misty atmosphere, I have a lurking fear and distrust of the reptiles and bugs who may also have a fancy for promenading at the same time and in the same place. I say nothing of bats, frogs and toads, mantis or even huge moths: to these we are quite accustomed. But although I have never seen a live snake in this country myself, still one hears such unpleasant stories about them that it is just as well to what the Scotch call "mak siccar" with a candle before beginning a constitutional ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various

... seems to be the sense of [Greek: mantis ennoia]. Blomfield would add [Greek: ennoia] to the dative, ...

— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus

Words linked to "Mantis" : praying mantid, dictyopterous insect