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Definition of Genus Mantis
1. Noun. Type genus of the Mantidae: mantises.
Group relationships: Family Manteidae, Family Mantidae, Manteidae, Mantidae
Member holonyms: Mantid, Mantis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mantis
Literary usage of Genus Mantis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"The separation of those species which feed on plants, and have no falciform
fore-feet, (their legs being all formed for running) from the genus mantis, ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization: Arranged in by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1832)
"These orthoptera form the sub-genus MANTIS. ... and whose antennas are simple in
both sexes, compose alone the genus Mantis of the same naturalist, ..."
3. A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and by John Ogilvie (1855)
"... insects of small size, and widely dispersed. They chiefly reside uj»on trees.
Their forelegs are formed like those in the genus Mantis. MANTLE, n. [add. ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... typified by the genus Mantis, with immensely long prothorax, and the fore legs
peculiarly modified as grasping-organs for raptorial purposes. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1904)
"... in which the lateral expansions are fairly well marked, but strictly confined
to the anterior portion of the pronotum. Genus MANTIS ..."
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