Crossword-Solution: MANTIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mantis | n. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MANTIS | anagram | MAINST, MANIST, MATINS, STAMIN |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
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Sentences with MANTIS (5)
There were tumble-bugs, grasshoppers, large beetles, mantis, praying mantis, toads and scorpions, together with others never seen outside of China, and some never seen at all, the legs and feelers all being made of wire.
The Mantis curls her belly; lifts her wings like vertical sails; opens her saw-toothed arm-pieces; in short, adopts the spectral attitude which she employs when delivering battle.
Under this shower of threads, the Mantis' terrible saws, the lethal legs, quickly disappear from sight, as do the wings, still erected in the spectral posture.
Let us now suppose the case of some dangerous game: a Praying Mantis, for instance, brandishing her lethal limbs, each hooked and fitted with a double saw; an angry Hornet, darting her awful sting; a sturdy Beetle, invincible under his horny armour.
But with the Praying Mantis, sticking out her long legs and her spreading wings, rotation is no longer feasible.
Quotes with MANTIS (3)
Nexus I wrote stubbornly into the evening. At the window, a giant praying mantisrubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass, begging vacantly with pale eyes; and the commas leapt at me like wormsor miniature scythes blackened with age. the praying mantis screeched louder, his ragged jaws opening into formlessness. I walked outside; the grass hissed at my heels. Up ahead in the lapping darknesshe wobbled, magnified and absurdly green, a brontosaurus, a poet.
It unsettles the women as they have dropped their disguise and are now giant praying mantis with blonde and auburn wigs, lipstick smeared on those deadly pincher-like insect jaws.
All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female goldfinch suddenly hove into view. She lighted weightlessly on the head of a bankside purple thistle and began emptying the seedcase, sowing the air with down. The lighted frame of my window filled. The down rose and spread in all directions, wafting over the dam’s waterfall and wavering between the tulip trunks and into the meadow. It vaulted towards the orchard in a puff; it…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 52 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).