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Mantidae

noun
1.
Mantises.  Synonyms: family Manteidae, family Mantidae, Manteidae.





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"Mantidae" Quotes from Famous Books



... the series of primitive insects, insects exceedingly limited in their industrial powers and subject to very summary metamorphoses, if to any at all. In my district, in the front rank of those entomological anomalies which remind us of the denizens of the old coal-forests, stand the Mantidae, including the Praying Mantis, so curious in habits and structure. Here also is the Empusa (E. pauperata, Latr.), the subject ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre


Words linked to "Mantidae" :   genus Mantis, Manteodea, suborder Manteodea, arthropod family, Manteidae


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