Meaning of "rearhorse" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF REARHORSE

rearhorse  [ˈrɪərˌhɔːs]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REARHORSE

Rearhorse is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES REARHORSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mantis

Mantodea is an order of insects that contains over 2,400 species and about 430 genera in 15 families worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. Most of the species are in the family Mantidae. The English common name for the order is the mantises, or rarely, the mantes. The name mantis refers only to members of the family Mantidae. The other common name, often applied to any species in the order, is "praying mantis", because of the typical "prayer-like" posture with folded fore-limbs, although the eggcorn "preying mantis" is sometimes used in reference to their predatory habits. In Europe and other regions, however, the name "praying mantis" refers to only a single species, Mantis religiosa. The closest relatives of mantises are the termites and cockroaches. They are sometimes confused with phasmids and other elongated insects such as grasshoppers and crickets, or other insects with raptorial forelegs such as mantisflies.

Definition of rearhorse in the English dictionary

The definition of rearhorse in the dictionary is a mantis.

TRANSLATION OF REARHORSE

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REARHORSE»

Discover the use of rearhorse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rearhorse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation

4' Fierce Battles of the Insect World." (1) Mantis religiosa, L., fighting with the grasshopper Platycleis grisea, Fab. This is entitled “ Rearhorse or mantis versus grasshopper.” (Dr. Burr suggests that “rearhorse ” is probably an Americanism.) ...

‎1913

Complex Medical Engineering

In this paper, inspired from rearhorse, we designed and carried out an underwater microrobot. It can move on underwater rough surface. And then a developed robot is made out. With a novel structure, the successor is faster in speed, smaller ...

J.L. Wu, K. Ito, S. Tobimatsu, 2007

The Permanent Man - The Complete First Season:

The arrow landed in the lower portionofthe rearhorse's back left leg. Immediately, the horse stood up on twolegs and neighed loud. The arrow didn't penetrate far enough to stick and fell tothe ground.The other horses shuffled around ...

Desmond Shepherd, 2014

English Language Word Builder

... PLEDGABLE POLEMARCH POLYBASIC POLYWATER PORTREEVE POSTNASAL PROSTOMIA PYROLATER QUADRATUS RAINBOWED REARHORSE REENSLAVE RINGSTAND ROCKSLIDE ROSEFINCH ROTAVIRUS RUNECRAFT ...

Bob Jackman, 2012

The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory

devil's rearhorse, or soothsayer, or mule killer—pinned to balsa wood. Careful study is a holy work. Before we leave, the curator tells us about her first job at the museum, transferring to tiny labels field notes someone else had taken.

Joni Tevis, 2012

Farmers' Bulletin

They were found in 51 stomachs, grasshoppers in 27 , eggs of cockroaches in 15 , crickets in 8, and a mantis (devil's rearhorse) in 1. Two stomachs contained the eggs of grasshoppers. Cockroaches were represented entirely by their egg ...

‎1913

Letter from Washington, 1863-1865

Rearhorse is the common name for these creatures here. I never say anything in animal or insect life so grotesquely and hideously human in gesture and expression as they are. I use the word expression advisedly; there are many human ...

L. B. Adams, Evelyn M. Leasher, 1999

Canal Crimes

Forester then goeson to describe their journey: There weretwo towlines attached to timberheads; one boatman rode as postillion on the rearhorse, controllingthe lead horse with shouts and the cracking ofhis whip.Inthestern sat the other ...

R. H. Davies, 2013

Food of Some Well-known Birds of Forest, Farm, and Garden

They were found in 51 stomachs, grasshoppers in 27, eggs of cockroaches in 15, crickets in 8, and a mantis (devil's rearhorse) in 1. Two stomachs contained the eggs of gcasshoppers. Cockroaches were represented entirely by their egg ...

Foster Ellenborough Lascelles Beal, Waldo Lee McAtee, 1902

Mountain Life & Work

Other names for this insect are: devil's horse, devil's mare, devil's rearhorse, devil's riding horse, soothsayer, mule killer, rearhorse, Johnny cockhorse. The wood thrush in eastern Kentucky is called a wheedle-dee, dark hollow bird, ...

‎1958