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rear-horses

rear-horses is the plural of rear-horse.

Meaning of rear-horse

Noun

rear-horse (plural rear-horses)

  1. (archaic) A mantis (Mantodea spp.), especially a Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina)

Questions about rear-horses

What is rear-horses the plural of?
Rear-horses is the plural of rear-horse.

Words near rear-horses in the dictionary

  1. rear-ending
  2. rear-ends
  3. rear-fanged
  4. rear-guard
  5. rear-horse
  6. rear-horses
  7. rear-view
  8. rear-view mirror
  9. rear-view mirrors
  10. rear-views
  11. rear-vision mirror

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rear-horses (page history and authors); rear-horse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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