mantis

English Thesaurus

1. predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	dictyopterous insect,
definition	:	cockroaches and mantids (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	mantis religioso, praying mantid, praying mantis,
definition	:	the common mantis (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus mantis,
definition	:	type genus of the Mantidae: mantises (noun.animal)