Definition of Genus mantis

1. Noun. Type genus of the Mantidae: mantises.

Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Manteidae, Family Mantidae, Manteidae, Mantidae
Member holonyms: Mantid, Mantis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mantis

genus Malvastrum
genus Malvaviscus
genus Mammea
genus Mammillaria
genus Mammut
genus Mammuthus
genus Mandevilla
genus Mandragora
genus Mandrillus
genus Manduca
genus Mangifera
genus Manihot
genus Manilkara
genus Manis
genus Manta
genus Mantis
genus Maranta
genus Marasmius
genus Marattia
genus Marchantia
genus Marmota
genus Marrubium
genus Marsilea
genus Martes
genus Martynia
genus Masdevallia
genus Masticophis
genus Mastigoproctus
genus Mastodon
genus Mastotermes

Literary usage of Genus mantis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"The separation of those species which feed on plants, and have no falciform fore-feet, (their legs being all formed for running) from the genus mantis, ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization: Arranged in by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1832)
"These orthoptera form the sub-genus MANTIS. ... and whose antennas are simple in both sexes, compose alone the genus Mantis of the same naturalist, ..."

3. A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and by John Ogilvie (1855)
"... insects of small size, and widely dispersed. They chiefly reside uj»on trees. Their forelegs are formed like those in the genus Mantis. MANTLE, n. [add. ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... typified by the genus Mantis, with immensely long prothorax, and the fore legs peculiarly modified as grasping-organs for raptorial purposes. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1904)
"... in which the lateral expansions are fairly well marked, but strictly confined to the anterior portion of the pronotum. Genus MANTIS ..."

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