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Definition of Mantises
1. mantis [n] - See also: mantis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mantises
Literary usage of Mantises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eat Your Food! Gastronomical Glory from Garden to Gut: A Coastalfields ...by Aaron Brachfeld, Aaron Brachfeld and Mary Choate, Mary Choate by Aaron Brachfeld, Aaron Brachfeld and Mary Choate, Mary Choate (2007)
"These are used to catch their prey, because praying mantises are ... Praying mantises
come in all different colors, and usually are very well camouflaged. ..."
2. The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the by John Arthur Thomson (1920)
"The Italian naturalist Cesnola tethered twenty green mantises among green ...
Most of the mantises were killed by birds; five of the green ones were killed ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1900)
"In various mantises, having the front limb of the shape usual in the family,
there is a remarkable coloration of the coxa. It is well seen in the common ..."
4. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"But green mantises on brown herbage and brown mantises on green herbage were soon
picked off. Discriminate selection was at work. ..."
5. British Central Africa: An Attempt to Give Some Account of a Portion of the by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1898)
"The mantises, or praying insects, offer a number of species, some of them very
fantastic, others almost beautiful in their green colouring with large black ..."
6. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"The trae mantises—sometimes called praying in- ercis, on account of the position of
... A second group of mantises, characterised 4ul Manual (Lat. manualis, ..."
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