(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".
Soothsayer
Definition:
(n.) One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
(n.) A mantis.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.
(2) Variations in the strength of recovery in different world regions led advertising industry soothsayer Sir Martin Sorrell to grasp for ever stranger soundbites, with the idea of a "LuVVy"-shaped global recovery his most elaborate effort.
(3) Soothsayer or not, he never imagined the pink pound would become legal tender.
(4) But analysts such as Silver, a man dubbed an oracle , a soothsayer and a savant have an interest in continuing to share these predictions.
(5) Thai authorities confirmed on Monday that a colonel in the military was also being investigated in the same inquiry as the soothsayer, but he had absconded.
(6) He thinks we shouldn't get on with cutting waste this year … I don't see him as some economic soothsayer, frankly."
(7) The actor and writer Carrie Fisher has many talents but soothsaying appears not to be among them.
(8) She says: "The soothsayers and tea-leaves readers and the so-called experts can look at coalitions, but our job is to make sure we are offering a big choice for a majority government."
(9) And then when they heard that the crowd had arrived, like a carnival with every malcontent and half-crazed soothsayer following in its wake, Martha went out into the streets to announce her brother's death to my son.
(10) Iain Duncan Smith dismissed “another doom-and-gloom scenario” from an organisation “that simply hasn’t got anything right”; his fellow pro-Brexit MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the OBR had made “lunatic assumptions” and that “experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category”.
(11) Thai authorities said Suriyan Sucharitpolwong, better known by his soothsayer name Mor Yong, died of a blood infection on Saturday evening, hours after he was found unconscious in his cell at a Bangkok army barracks.
(12) The so-called “evil cult” has been wreaking havoc countrywide, if state media reports are to be believed – distributing leaflets, soothsaying into megaphones, attacking police stations and extorting “donations” from gullible peasants.
(13) But just as the soothsayers who cook up future prospects from experience of the recent past had got used to peering back into gloom, reality overtook them again, and all the adjustments are now in the other direction.
(14) Google in particular preoccupies advertising's economic soothsayer.
(15) On the evidence of the first 100 days, that’s a question beyond the most talented soothsayer, but as the days pass, maybe word will emerge of a plan.
(16) Experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category.” This is classic Rees-Mogg.
(17) Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist – but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.
(18) On stage he looks nothing like the laconic soothsayer of a few hours ago; now he's every bit the magnetic frontman, pulling messianic poses with arms outstretched and head flung back.
(19) Turns out the soothsayers were mistaken: the Sun isn't dying, it's expanding.