mantis
man tis
- n predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer
- Re the praying mantis' being voted by the Virginia legislature as the state insect March 15: I know that a candidate, when elected, tends to change in the public eye, but I didn .
- One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world.
- The mantis, the Arlington students explained to the Virginia legislators, eats bugs that destroy the corn, peanuts and tobacco of Virginia, while the butterfly in the .