Word Meanings - REAR-HORSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mantis.

Related words: (words related to REAR-HORSE)

• MANTISPID
  Any neuropterous insect of the genus Mantispa, and allied genera. The larvæ feed on plant lice. Also used adjectively. See Illust. under Neuroptera.
• MANTIS
  Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer.
• MANTISSA
  The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.
• CHIROMANIST; CHIROMANTIST
  A chiromancer.
• SEA MANTIS
  A squilla.