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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: mantis crab
mantis crab
n : tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping
appendages [syn:
mantis shrimp]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: mantis crab
mantis crab
\mantis crab\ n.
Same as
Squilla.
Syn: Mantis shrimp.
[WordNet 1.5]
Mantis
\Man"tis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a prophet.] (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects
of the genus
Mantis, and allied genera. They are predacious
long-bodied large-eyed insects of warm regions, 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
Mantis Carolina.
[1913 Webster]
Mantis shrimp. (Zo["o]l.) The
Squilla, a tropical marine
burrowing crustacean with large grasping appendages. Also
called
mantis crab and
mantis prawn.
[1913 Webster]
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