mantislike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mantis +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

mantislike (comparative more mantislike, superlative most mantislike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mantis.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      She had large round eyeglasses and a radial distribution of face wrinkles which together gave a mantislike impression.
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