Usually means: Insect with elongated bodies, predatory.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. mantis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mantis: Merriam-Webster
  3. mantis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mantis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mantis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mantis: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mantis, mantis: Wordnik
  8. mantis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mantis: Wiktionary
  10. mantis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mantis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mantis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. MANTIS: Dictionary.com
  14. mantis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mantis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. M.A.N.T.I.S, MANTIS (spacecraft), Mantis (DC Comics), Mantis (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Mantis (Marvel Comics), Mantis (album), Mantis (comics), Mantis (disambiguation), Mantis (genus), Mantis (roller coaster), Mantis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mantis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mantis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mantis: Rhymezone
  20. Mantis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mantis: FreeDictionary.org
  22. mantis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mantis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MANTIS: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. mantis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MANTIS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mantis, the mantis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs.
noun:  A green colour, like that of many mantises.

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