PRAYING MANTIS


Meaning of PRAYING MANTIS in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For more and more she is coming to resemble a mechanical praying mantis , frozen there in the glass, he wrote.

He was very tall, perhaps six foot five, all elbow and forearm, like an enormous ginger praying mantis .

I watched with interest - it was like observing the gyrations of an alien species, a praying mantis or something.

Manipulators, fed by red veins of hydraulic fluid, fold elbows-up beside her cheeks like legs of a praying mantis .

We learned the swift, circular dance of the praying mantis .

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