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mantislike

mantislike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a mantis.

Adjective

mantislike (comparative more mantislike, superlative most mantislike)

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

Forms of mantislike

comparativemore mantislike
superlativemost mantislike

Origin of mantislike

From mantis + -like.

Questions about mantislike

What does mantislike mean?
Mantislike means resembling or characteristic of a mantis.
What part of speech is mantislike?
Mantislike is an adjective.

Words near mantislike in the dictionary

  1. mantis shrimp
  2. mantis shrimps
  3. mantises
  4. mantisflies
  5. mantisfly
  6. mantislike
  7. mantispid
  8. mantispids
  9. mantissa
  10. mantissae
  11. mantissas

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