(n.) 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. The common American species is M. Carolina.
Example Sentences:
(1) He will not be easily replaced, but Ogletree is the top inside linebacker in this year's draft, boasting greater range and athleticism than the more talked-about Manti Te'o.
(2) Squilla mantis hemocyanin is composed of two hexameric subunits but has electron microscopic profiles different from other bis-hexameric hemocyanins, e.g.
(3) I felt like one of those mantis shrimps with trinocular vision."
(4) • Along with Smith, the other big story on day two of the draft was Manti Te'o – a player once viewed as a high first-round pick but who scared potential employers off with a combination of poor pre-draft workouts (he clocked 4.82 seconds in the 40-yard dash) and bizarre stories about fictional girlfriends .
(5) One looked as if a giant UFO had landed on its roof, another like a praying mantis about to pounce, another like it might take off for the moon.
(6) The mantis was able to attack prey throughout a large three-dimensional capture zone by changing body orientation relative to its perch.
(7) Notre Dame inside linebacker and part-time Catfish Awareness Spokesman Manti Te’o was supposed to wind up with the Vikings, yet they passed on him with all three of their eventual first-round picks.
(8) We have investigated how the binocular control of prey capture in the praying mantis is affected by abnormally large vertical disparities, which were introduced by prisms placed in front of the eyes.
(9) Proteins extracted from suboesophageal ganglia of Squilla mantis, an arthropod shown to be sensitive in vivo to opiates and to contain native opioid like peptide(s), were fractionated by gel filtration into three pools according to their molecular weight: A (Mr greater than 65,000), B (10,000 less than Mr less than 65,000) and C (Mr less than 10,000).
(10) Some species of mantis abruptly and dramatically alter their flight path when stimulated with ultrasonic pulses, suggesting a behavioral response to insectivorous echo-locating bats.
(11) We describe the electron microscopy of a crystalline assembly of an alpha-helical coiled-coil protein extracted from the ootheca of the praying mantis.
(12) The description of stages of the molt cycle in mantis shrimp (emphasizing Gonodactylus but compared in a number of Gonodactylidae, Squillidae, and Lysiosquillidae) includes data on texture, hardness, and color of the exoskeleton; behavior; and the micromorphology of the integument and developing setae.
(13) In fact, it resembles in many ways a small modular love seat, or a praying mantis.
(14) The animals were made out of auto parts, including these 12-foot mantis.
(15) These findings are contrasted with those from studies of mantis visual behaviour and a simple mechanism is suggested for how prey location is encoded to produce steering of the attack.
(16) Other insects with auditory tympana possess paired, laterally placed ears; the mantis has only a single ear that is located in the ventral midline between the metathoracic legs.
(17) Some creatures, it turns out, do it a little differently … The praying mantis In the kind of congress that makes Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct look like Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga, a successful mating of praying mantises (mantii?)
(18) The femal specific proteins (FSP) identified in the hemolymph of Squilla mantis females are here proven to be vitellogenins (VTG) by immunological and electrophoretical methods.
(19) To detect the presence of a mammalian-like enkephalin precursor in suboesophageal ganglia of Squilla mantis, an arthropod shown to be sensitive in vivo to opiates [8], protein acid extracts were fractionated by gel filtration into three large pools: A(Mr greater than 65,000), B(10,000 less than Mr less than 65,000) and C(Mr less than 10,000).
(20) The release came as one of the group's top 10 shareholders backed Labour leader Ed Miliband's call for a public interest test in big foreign takeovers , and a former AstraZeneca boss warned Pfizer could act like a praying mantis and "suck the lifeblood out of its prey".