- bench top laminate - Benchtop laminate - Dictation for Mike – a laminated sheet - Laminated plastic - Plastic laminate - A Linnaean genus of hymenopterous insects, including the
common ants. See Ant.
- A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house
fly, and numerous allied species. - A small constellation situated between the Southern Cross
and the Pole.
- A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which
feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats,
skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius,
known as the bacon beetle.
- slender predatory insect - Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous
insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for
their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior
legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American
species is M. Carolina.