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noun ( plural: mantises or mantes)
- Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs.
noun
- A dark hairy fly of the family Bibionidae.
- (Australian English) A bloodsucking tabanid horsefly.
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1988: There were other, less pleasant forms of life, too; March flies with a spike-like proboscis I thought would have no trouble going through a pine board. " Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked (Angus & Robertson 1995, p. 237)
noun
- (context, Printing): the edge of the paper that remains blank
- (context, Finance): the yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits, as a margin of error
noun ( mayflies)
- any of many fragile insects, of the order Ephemeroptera, that develop in fresh water, and live very briefly as adults.
noun
- Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, that secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees.
noun
- A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first faeces of the newborn
noun ( medflies)
- A small fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, native to the Mediterranean.
noun ( plural: mediae)
- (anatomy) the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. (tunica media, between the tunica interna and tunica externa).
adjective
- Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean
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medial alligation
- (anatomy) pertaining to the inside (the part facing the body); for example, the medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.
noun
- (mineralogy) A rock that has been changed from its original form by subjection to heat and/or pressure.
adjective
- (geology) Having been structurally altered as a result of, or resulting from, exposure to intense heat &/or pressure (at the contact zone between colliding plates, for example).
noun
- Any of various small two-winged fly, flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera.
noun
- an insect, of the order Hemiptera, that mostly feeds on the seeds and tissue of the milkweed plant (Asclepias).
proper noun
- an English and Scottish occupational surname for a miller
noun
- Any of many elongated arthropods, of the class Diplopoda, with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments.
noun
- a person who works in a mine.
- an operator of mine, mines and other explosives in an army.
noun
- Any of various large insects from the family Gryllotalpidae that burrow into moist soil and feed on plant roots.
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- The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
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Quotations
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1598: Never was monarch better fear, fear'd and love, lov'd Than is your Majesty. " w:William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II, Scene II, line 25.
- A migratory butterfly, Danaus plexippus, found in North America. See w:en:Monarch butterfly.
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- a large dark wingless katydid, Anabrus simplex, that resembles a cricket and is found in the arid parts of the western U.S. where it is occasionally an abundant pest of crops
noun
- usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterfly, butterflies by feather-like antennae.
verb
- (intransitive) To hunt for moths.
noun
- (obsolete) A dark cloak worn by a mourner at a funeral.
- A large butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, native to Eurasia and North America
noun
- (zoology): The study of ants.
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