英语词汇“praying mantis”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

More fully praying mantis. Any of various predatory insects of the suborder Mantodea (order Dictyoptera), which are typically slender and cryptically coloured, with a mobile triangular head, elongated thorax, and large raptorial forelimbs held raised and folded like hands in prayer; (originally) esp. the green Mantis religiosa, which occurs throughout southern Europe. Also (in form Mantis): a genus that comprises some of the typical insects of this kind. Cf. mantid n. 1.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Systema Naturæ (ed. 12, 1767) I. ii. 689.

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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. i. 180 One kinde of Locust..stands..in a large erectnesse..by Zoographers called mantis .

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) xvi. 982 I have seen only three kinds [of the lesser Locusts]..they are called Mantes, foretellers... They do shew the Spring to be at hand, so Anacreon the Poet sang; or else they foretell dearth and famine, as Cælius the Scholiast of Theocritus have observed.

1704 Nat. Hist. vi, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 219 The Green Mantiss..like a Locust.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mantis,..an Insect call'd The praying Locust.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 243 The Orator Mantis.

1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. 305 The curious leaf-insect (Mantis).

1870 S. Mateer Travancore (1871) 90 Locusts, grass~hoppers, mantises, etc. abound.

1895 E. Gosse Crit. Kit-kats 290 That quaint insect, the praying mantis.

1936 N.Y. Herald Tribune 26 Aug. 17/4 Hordes of praying mantises, the queer brown and green insects,..descended on New York.

1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter iii. xii. 162 To my amazement the head of the Mantis turned and he looked straight before him, while the two long front feet held limp in front of him suddenly moved.

1964 Sci. 8 May 774/1 (advt.) Mantes, praying or otherwise.

1993 Equine Marketer July 3/2 Basically good bugs eat other bugs, and bad bugs eat plants. This is why knowledgeable folks are always happy to see good bugs like..praying mantis around their place.

单词	praying mantis
释义	> as lemmas praying mantis More fully praying mantis. Any of various predatory insects of the suborder Mantodea (order Dictyoptera), which are typically slender and cryptically coloured, with a mobile triangular head, elongated thorax, and large raptorial forelimbs held raised and folded like hands in prayer; (originally) esp. the green Mantis religiosa, which occurs throughout southern Europe. Also (in form Mantis): a genus that comprises some of the typical insects of this kind. Cf. mantid n. 1.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Systema Naturæ (ed. 12, 1767) I. ii. 689. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dictyoptera > suborder Mantodea > member of family Mantidae locust1646 mantis1646 soothsayer1855 rearhorse1859 mantid1895 mantispid1926 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dictyoptera > suborder Mantodea > member of family Mantidae > mantis religiosa (praying mantis) praying locust1646 devil's horse1760 Hottentot god1785 praying insect1817 praying mantis1895 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. i. 180 One kinde of Locust..stands..in a large erectnesse..by Zoographers called mantis . View more context for this quotation 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) xvi. 982 I have seen only three kinds [of the lesser Locusts]..they are called Mantes, foretellers... They do shew the Spring to be at hand, so Anacreon the Poet sang; or else they foretell dearth and famine, as Cælius the Scholiast of Theocritus have observed. 1704 Nat. Hist. vi, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 219 The Green Mantiss..like a Locust. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mantis,..an Insect call'd The praying Locust. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 243 The Orator Mantis. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. 305 The curious leaf-insect (Mantis). 1870 S. Mateer Travancore (1871) 90 Locusts, grass~hoppers, mantises, etc. abound. 1895 E. Gosse Crit. Kit-kats 290 That quaint insect, the praying mantis. 1936 N.Y. Herald Tribune 26 Aug. 17/4 Hordes of praying mantises, the queer brown and green insects,..descended on New York. 1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter iii. xii. 162 To my amazement the head of the Mantis turned and he looked straight before him, while the two long front feet held limp in front of him suddenly moved. 1964 Sci. 8 May 774/1 (advt.) Mantes, praying or otherwise. 1993 Equine Marketer July 3/2 Basically good bugs eat other bugs, and bad bugs eat plants. This is why knowledgeable folks are always happy to see good bugs like..praying mantis around their place. extracted from mantisn. praying mantis praying mantis n. see mantis n. extracted from prayingadj. < as lemmas
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