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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The natural family conmprising the mantises. Same as
Manteidae .
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- noun mantises
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Examples
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Nothing abounded but scorpions, mantidae, and grasshoppers.
The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916
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Danais and Acraea, extending to their larvae and pupae; their great abundance, slow flight, and disregard of concealment; and he states that while lizards, mantidae, and dragonflies all hunt butterflies, and the rejected wings are to be found abundantly at some of their feeding-places, those of the two genera Danais and Acraea were never among them.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Only a few cases of this kind of coloration have yet been observed, chiefly among spiders and mantidae; but, no doubt, if attention were given to the subject in tropical countries, many more would be discovered.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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