Mantis
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Mantis is Greek for "prophet." Image:Bristol.zoo.dead.leaf.mantis.arp.jpg Mantis is also the name of several insects in the Mantidae family:
Mantis shrimps, also known as stomatopods or mantid lobsters, are predatory crustaceans. The name derives from their powerful claws, which resemble those of the familiar praying mantis.
Mantidflies are small predatory insects that get their name from their front legs, which look like praying mantids'.
Mantis is the name of several comic book characters:
- Mantis, a supervillain in Jack Kirby's Fourth World at DC Comics
- Mantis, a member of The Avengers at Marvel Comics
Other meanings:
- A dreamtime trickster character in San (Bushmen) folklore, much like the Native North American Raven (mythology).
- A Programming language marketed by Cincom.
- The superhero television series called M.A.N.T.I.S..
- A firearm called the Mantis V1 Bullpup.
- The name of an alien insect-like race in the real-time strategy computer game Conquest Frontier Wars.
- Mantis Bugtracker is a PHP/MySQL-based bug tracking system.
- Playing Mantis, a toy company, produces Johnny Lighting cars and Polar Lights models.
- The Mantis is a very large roller coaster located at Cedar Point theme park in Sandusky, Ohio, USA.
- Haying Mantis is a farm machine used to process bales of hay, produced by Justice Enterprises Inc..
- Mantis Recordings is a British jazz and dance music record label.
- Mantis is a division of Schiller-Pfeiffer Inc. and produces the Mantis Tiller garden tool.
- Mantis is the name of a pro wrestler for NWA Pro Wrestling Xpress.
- Ultra Mantis is the name of a pro wrestler for Chikara Pro Wrestling.
- An extension of the slang term "you da man" which was made shorter to "da mantis" and in some circles just "mantis". The phrase was coined by male high school students in Wellington, New Zealand.
Mantis is an erotic horror painter artist From the American southwest