mantis

詳細解釋：

man.tis

n.（名詞）
【複數】 man.tis.es 或 man.tes [-tôz]
Any of various predatory insects of the family Mantidae, primarily tropical but including a few Temperate Zone species, usually pale green and having two pairs of walking legs and powerful, grasping forelimbs. The mantis feeds on live insects, including others of its own kind.Also called mantid
螳螂：任一種螳螂科多種食肉昆蟲，主要生活在熱帶 ，但也有一些生活於溫帶地區 。常為淺綠色，有兩對用來行走的腿和用來抓物的有力前肢。螳螂以其它活的昆蟲為食，包括其家族的其它成員也作 mantid

來源：
Greek mantis [seer] * see men-
希臘語 mantis [預言家] *參見 men-

<注釋>The female mantis has the habit of eating the male after mating.In spite of such behaviorthe mantis is graced with a religious name.Mantis is from the Greek word mantis, meaning .prophet, seer..The Greeks, who made the connection between the upraised front legs of a mantis waiting for its prey and the hands of a prophet in prayer,used the namemantis to mean .the praying mantis.. This word and sense were picked up in Modern Latin and from there came into English,being first recorded in '58.Once we know the origin of the termmantis, we realize that the species namespraying mantis and Mantis religiosa are a bit redundant. Two other names of this sort that have been used for mantises arepraying locust and orator mantis. To understand the latter,we must keep in mind the obsolete sense oforator, .one who makes a prayer or petition..
雌性螳螂習慣於在交配後吃掉雄性螳螂。儘管存在著這種行為，螳螂還是被賦予了一個具有宗教色彩的名字。Mantis 來源於希臘語 mantis 一詞， 意為.先知，預言家.。希臘人把螳螂捕食前高舉的前肢與預言家禱告時的雙手聯繫起來，用mantis 一詞來表示.祈禱的預言家.。 現代拉丁語吸收了這個詞及其意義，英文又從拉丁語中吸取了該詞，最早記載見於'58年。我們既然知道了mantis 的來源， 就會發現其屬種名praying mantis 和 Mantis religiosa 略有重複。 用來表示螳螂的其它類似名稱還有praying locust 和 orator mantis。 要想弄清楚後者，我們必須想到orator 一詞的過時的意思.做禱告或祈求的人.