[
UK
/mˈɑːntiz/
]
[ US /ˈmæntɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈmæntɪs/ ]
NOUN
- predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer
How To Use mantis In A Sentence
- Each eye can move independently and can focus on object with three different areas, giving the mantis shrimp "trinocular vision". ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- It looks like a preying mantis, has a huge hook to snare its prey and is coming to a rocky shoreline near you.
- Girl power: This female Malaysian Orchid Praying Mantis is, at 60mm, long, twice the size of it's diminutive male counterpart.
- If you recall, run-of-the-mill DSPs typically store numbers as a floating-point, 24-bit mantissa and an 8-bit exponent.
- “autosemantic expressions” (autosemantische Ausdrücke) or simply “autosemantica” Anton Marty
- I watched with interest - it was like observing the gyrations of an alien species, a praying mantis or something.sentence dictionary
- For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis, frozen there in the glass, he wrote.
- With his long legs almost under his chin, he looked like a praying mantis. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
- (Autosemantika), as exemplified by names and sentences of various kinds, whereas he calls the latter “synsemantic expressions” (synsemantische Ausdrücke) or simply Anton Marty
- He goes for walk one day and witnesses a fight between a cicada and a much smaller praying mantis.