Lexicographical Neighbors of Empusa
Literary usage of Empusa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"I. THE MORPHOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT OF empusa.' EDGAR W. OLIVE. ... This three-celled
character of the hyphae of empusa muscae was disproved, however, ..."
2. Introduction to Entomology by James Duncan, Sir William Jardine (1860)
"... head elevated in the middle, forms another link between the species with lobed
and those with simple tibiae. empusa GONGYLODES. J'l.ATE X. Fig. I. Latr. ..."
3. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"4; Roscher Lexikon, sv " empusa"). Even Pan seems to have been represented at
least once with snake-legs (Roscher Ephialtes, pp. 122 f . ..."
4. The Life of the Grasshopper by Jean-Henri Fabre (1917)
"... the denizens of the old coal-forests, stand the Mantidae, including the Praying
Mantis, so curious in habits and structure. Here also is the empusa (E. ..."
5. The Life of the Grasshopper by Jean-Henri Fabre (1917)
"The empusa refuses them. They are too big for her and can offer too strenuous a
resistance: She wards off their approach with blows of her mitre. ..."
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