Talk:praying mantis
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Rfv-sense "Any of various predatory, cannibalistic insects of the family Mantidae that have a prayer-like stance.". The WP article does not mention this usage.__Gamren (talk) 11:43, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
- The WP article does mention that the family Mantidae formerly included all the species now split off into numerous other families, so it's not really a separate sense. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:04, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 03:43, 2 June 2017 (UTC)