MANTIS (mantes)

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Irregular inflected form: mantes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mantis mean? 

• MANTIS (noun)
  The noun MANTIS has 1 sense:

1. predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer

  Familiarity information: MANTIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

mantid; mantis

Hypernyms ("mantis" is a kind of...):

dictyopterous insect (cockroaches and mantids)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mantis"):

Mantis religioso; praying mantid; praying mantis (the common mantis)

Holonyms ("mantis" is a member of...):

genus Mantis (type genus of the Mantidae: mantises)

 Context examples 

Mantis shrimp eyes have stereoscopic vision and possess a band of photoreceptors that can distinguish up to 12 different wavelengths and linear and circular polarized light.

(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)

A taxonomic class of arthropods that includes praying mantises, dragonflies, grasshoppers, true bugs, flies, bees, wasps, ants, butterflies, moths, and beetles.

(Insect, NCI Thesaurus)

Nicholas Strausfeld of the University of Arizona teamed up with other researchers to better understand how the reniform bodies connect to other parts of the mantis shrimp brain.

(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)

A team of researchers examined the neuronal organization of mantis shrimp and discovered a region of their brain called the reniform body.

(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)

A new study provides insight into how the small brains of mantis shrimp — fierce predators with keen vision — may process and integrate visual information with other sensory input.

(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)

Mantis shrimp seem to be able to process all the different channels of information with the participation of the reniform body.

(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)