mantis 的定义
plural man·tis·es, man·tes [man-teez]. /ˈmæn tiz/.
- any of several predaceous insects of the order Mantidae, having a long prothorax and typically holding the forelegs in an upraised position as if in prayer.
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- The other camera was used to film fish and mantis shrimp, so you had to get the camera and laptop into underwater housing.
- Not long ago, he came across a description from more than 40 years ago of how a mantis shrimp navigated beaches.
- These weapons emerged about when the mantis shrimp larvae first begin feeding on live prey, after exhausting the yolk sacs they were born with, Harrison says.
- This mantis species is rarely encountered by researchers and might be thinly spread throughout the rainforest, so locating receptive mates could be particularly challenging.
- This odd organ is unlike anything seen in mantises before, researchers report online April 21 in the Journal of Orthoptera Research.
- An ex-wife of one of her conquests had even described her as a “praying mantis with a terminator smile”.
- A few days later, Hafernik found more bees, and again fed them to the mantis.
- A 15-year-old girl is “a five-foot-ten-inch mantis of legendary poise and ballet repute.”
- And the mantis is so voracious that you can cut her in two without making her let go; a chain, truly, of carnage.
- The Praying Mantis is a bright green; she boasts an elongated prothorax and an alert gait.
- The Mantis-killing Tachytes, for instance, preys indiscriminately upon all the Mantides that occur in her neighbourhood.
- Their centres of innervation will therefore be stabbed as well, with the leisure which the Mantis, now put out of action, permits.
- And the entire race is not bound to the habits of the mantis or of other insects equally melodramatic.