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GENUS MANTIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Mantis mean?
• GENUS MANTIS (noun)
The noun GENUS MANTIS has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Mantidae: mantises
Familiarity information: GENUS MANTIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Mantidae: mantises
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("genus Mantis" is a kind of...):
arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "genus Mantis"):
mantid; mantis (predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer)
Holonyms ("genus Mantis" is a member of...):
family Manteidae; family Mantidae; Manteidae; Mantidae (mantises)
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