Usually means: Insect with distinctive grasping forelegs.
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  1. praying mantis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. praying mantis: Merriam-Webster
  3. praying mantis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. praying mantis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. praying mantis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. praying mantis: Vocabulary.com
  7. praying mantis: Wordnik
  8. praying mantis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Praying mantis: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. praying mantis: Wiktionary
  11. praying mantis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. praying mantis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. praying mantis: Dictionary.com
  14. Praying Mantis (band), Praying Mantis (film), Praying Mantis, Praying mantis (disambiguation), Praying mantis (insect), Praying mantis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. praying mantis: Rhymezone
  16. praying mantis: FreeDictionary.org
  17. praying mantis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. praying mantis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Praying mantis (insect), praying mantis: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (praying mantis)

noun:  Any of various predatory, cannibalistic insects of the order Mantodea that have a prayer-like stance.
noun:  (regional, in Europe) A mantid of the species Mantis religiosa.
noun:  A woman who preys on men (from the idea that female praying mantises eat males after sex).

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