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European mantis en · NOUN

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1. Any of the species Mantis religiosa of mantids.
   • Her mate has tried to avoid this destiny. The male European mantis “uses his feelers to calm her down”, the BBC narrates. 2021 May 27, Helen Sullivan, “A praying mantis: she bites into her mate’s head like an apple and cleans her face ‘like a cat’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2023:

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