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rearhorse

rearhorse is the alternative form 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)

Forms of rearhorse

pluralrearhorses

Questions about rearhorse

What is rearhorse the alternative form of?
Rearhorse is the alternative form of rear-horse.

Words near rearhorse in the dictionary

  1. reargued
  2. reargues
  3. rearguing
  4. reargument
  5. rearguments
  6. rearhorse
  7. rearhorses
  8. Rearick
  9. Rearicks
  10. rearing
  11. rearing back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rearhorse (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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