Mantis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MANTIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a predatory insect, also MANTID
• a slender predatory insect with a triangular head, which waits motionless for prey with its large forelegs folded like hands in prayer.
• carnivorous insect like a grasshopper
• Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina.
• predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer

Words related to MANTIS

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Words that contain MANTIS

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How to use MANTIS in a sentence

• The Mantis is a species of cricket, and belongs to the Hemiptetera, or second order of insects.
• The country people in many parts of the continent, look upon the religious Mantis as a divine insect, and would not on any account injure it.
• Smith, however, informs us, that he received an account of this Mantis, that seemed to savour little indeed of divinity.
• The most prominent of the animal mythological figures is that of the mantis, around which a great cycle of myths has been formed.

Similar words containing MANTI without suffix s

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