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Noun: mantis shrimp
  1. Tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages
    - mantis crab

Derived forms: mantis shrimps

Type of: stomatopod, stomatopod crustacean

Part of: order Stomatopoda, Stomatopoda

Encyclopedia: Mantis shrimp

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Mantinea
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Mantispidae
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Mantle
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