What does mantis shrimp mean?

mantis shrimp means "tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages".

What is another word for mantis shrimp?

Close synonyms include mantis crab. 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 mantis shrimp a common word?

mantis shrimp 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.

Mantis shrimp — meaning and 1 synonym

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages
Synonymsmantis crab
Broaderstomatopod
Narrowersquilla
Part ofStomatopoda

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