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nounpredacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer
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- dictyopterous insect cockroaches and mantids
- genus mantis type genus of the Mantidae: mantises
- order dictyoptera in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera
- dictyoptera in some classifications replaced by the orders (here suborders) Blattodea (cockroaches) and Manteodea (mantids); in former classifications often subsumed under a much broader order Orthoptera