mantid

1. 1.

   predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer

   Synonymsmantis

   Broaderdictyopterous insect

   Narrowerpraying mantis

   Part ofgenus Mantis

Other forms of mantid

plural

mantids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mantid

What does mantid mean?

mantid means "predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer".

How many syllables are in mantid?

mantid has 2 syllables: man-tid. The stress falls on "man".

What is another word for mantid?

Close synonyms include mantis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mantid a common word?

mantid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.