MANTIS SHRIMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mantis shrimp mean? 

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

1. tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANTIS SHRIMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

mantis crab; mantis shrimp

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

stomatopod; stomatopod crustacean (a kind of crustacean)

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

mantis prawn; squilla (a kind of mantis shrimp)

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

order Stomatopoda; Stomatopoda (mantis shrimps)

 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)

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)

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)

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)