PRAYING MANTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does praying mantis mean? 

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

1. the common mantis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRAYING MANTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The common mantis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Mantis religioso; praying mantid; praying mantis

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

mantid; mantis (predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer)

 Context examples 

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

(Insect, NCI Thesaurus)