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mantislike

adj

Etymology

From mantis + -like.

  1. derived from *méntis✻
  2. derived from μάντις
  3. borrowed from mantis
  4. suffixed as mantislike — “mantis + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mantis.

    • She had large round eyeglasses and a radial distribution of face wrinkles which together gave a mantislike impression.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA