noun
tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages
• Syn: ↑mantis shrimp
• Hypernyms: ↑stomatopod, ↑stomatopod crustacean
• Hyponyms: ↑squilla, ↑mantis prawn
• Member Holonyms: ↑Stomatopoda, ↑order Stomatopoda
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mantis crab or mantis shrimp,
= squilla. (Cf. ↑squilla)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.