Meanings
nounEuropean mantis (plural European mantises or European mantes)
plural European mantises · plural European mantes
- Any of the species Mantis religiosa of mantids.
Her mate has tried to avoid this destiny. The male European mantis “uses his feelers to calm her down”, the BBC narrates.
2021 May 27, Helen Sullivan, “A praying mantis: she bites into her mate’s head like an apple and cleans her face ‘like a cat’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2023
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