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Meanings of pray mantis in English

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Usage of pray mantis in English
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Exceptions are phototropic night fliers like the moth, praying mantis, and mosquito.
The new yorker
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She is even more remarkable in figure and attire than the Praying Mantis.
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
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Save for a few slight structural details, the Empusa is the Praying Mantis.
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
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The predominant game is the Praying Mantis, green; next comes the Grey Mantis, ash-coloured.
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See the Tiger in his jungle, see the Praying Mantis on her green branch.
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Two Eristales, or Drone-flies, and a Praying Mantis an inch long composed its daily allowance.
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They are the following: the Praying Mantis (M. religiosa, LIN.
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The Praying Mantis is a bright green; she boasts an elongated prothorax and an alert gait.
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A baby praying mantis perches on the leaves of a tree in Sheoraphuli, Hooghly, September 2010.
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How does she manage to recognize in this spectre the near relation of the Praying Mantis?
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The Praying Mantis commences her nest at the blunter extremity, and completes it at the pointed tail.
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What advantage has a bishop over the Praying Mantis, that cricket which apes the attitude of piety?
The Soul of a Bishop
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In the place of the Praying Mantis, offer the Mantis-hunting Tachytes an equivalent in the shape of a Locust.
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The numerical predominance in the Tachytes' cells belongs to the Praying Mantis; and the Grey Mantis occupies second place.
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And remember that the other, the male of the Praying Mantis, ends in the stomach of his gluttonous spouse.
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What have the Locust, the Cricket, the Praying Mantis and the Mole-cricket in common, as regards their general appearance?
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