Definition of Praying insect. Meaning of Praying insect. Synonyms of Praying insect

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Definition of Praying insect

Praying insect
Praying Pray"ing, a. & n. from Pray, v. Praying insect, locust, or mantis (Zo["o]l.), a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis. Praying machine, or Praying wheel, a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream.

Meaning of Praying insect from wikipedia

- remaining stationary with forearms folded, resembling a praying posture, has led to the common name praying mantis. The closest relatives of mantises are termites...
- praying mantis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The praying mantis is any insect of the order Mantodea. Praying mantis may also refer to: Praying Mantis...
- Praying Mantis (Chinese: 螳螂拳; pinyin: tánglángquán; lit. 'praying mantis fist') is a style of Chinese martial arts, sometimes called Shandong Praying...
- Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous...
- large hemimetabolic insect in the Mantidae family, which is the largest family of the order Mantodea (mantises). Their common name praying mantis is derived...
- Tyler (2016-08-30). "Left for Dead, Royals Revive on a Wing and a Praying Insect". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-09-04. "bibliogroup:%22Little...
- The Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) is a species of praying mantis of the subfamily Stagmomantinae. ****ual cannibalism occurs in roughly one quarter...
- marginipennis Leptynia hispanica Stick insects, like praying mantises, show rocking behavior in which the insect makes rhythmic, repetitive, side-to-side...
- myths are the bee, fly, butterfly, cicada, dragonfly, praying mantis and scarab beetle. Insect myths may present the origins of a people, or of their...
- Beneficial insects (sometimes called beneficial bugs) are any of a number of species of insects that perform valued services like pollination and pest...