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Manticore
Manticore (martikhoras, "man-eater"): Persian legendary hybrid with a lion's body, human face, three rows of teeth, and a spine-shooting tail, first recorded by Ctesias in the 5th century BCE and later a D&D monster.
Mantidae
Mantidae (Burmeister, 1838) is the largest family of praying mantises, order Mantodea, superfamily Mantoidea. Originated in Gondwana during the Late Cretaceous; Tenoderinae and Hierodulinae are polyphyletic.
Mantine
Mantine is an open-source React components library written in TypeScript and MIT-licensed, developed by Vitaly Rtishchev, with more than 100 components, hooks, and first-party packages for forms, dates, and charts.
Mantineia/Antigoneia
Mantineia (Antigoneia) was an ancient Arcadian city in the Peloponnese plain near Tripoli, Greece. Renamed Antigoneia in 222 BC after Antigonus Doson destroyed it; Hadrian restored the name Mantineia.
Mantis
Mantis (praying mantis, order Mantodea): predatory insect related to cockroaches, with triangular head, raptorial spined forelegs, camouflage; about 2,500 species; indiscriminate feeder of little pest-control value.
Mantis (film)
Mantis (사마귀) is a 2025 South Korean Netflix action thriller, a spin-off of Kill Boksoon, directed by Lee Tae-sung, starring Yim Si-wan, Park Gyu-young, and Jo Woo-jin as rival contract killers; released September 26, 2025, 113 minutes, mixed reviews.
Mantis (Marvel Comics)
Mantis (Brandt) is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Steve Englehart and Don Heck, debuting in Avengers #112 (1973) as the Celestial Madonna, mother of the Celestial Messiah, later a Guardian of the Galaxy.
Mantis shrimp
Mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda) are marine crustaceans with spring-loaded raptorial clubs striking at ~23 m/s with cavitation, and compound eyes with up to 16 photoreceptor classes for color, UV, and circular polarization vision.
Mantis shrimp-inspired impact composites
Mantis shrimp-inspired impact composites are engineered materials whose helicoidal and graded architectures copy the mantis shrimp's dactyl club, where twisting cracks absorb impact energy, improving toughness over conventional layups.
Mantispidae
Mantispidae (mantidflies, mantisflies), family Leach 1815 of Neuroptera with 395 extant species; adults have raptorial forelegs convergent with mantises, and Mantispinae larvae prey on spider eggs inside egg sacs.
Mantıku't-Tayr
Mantıku't-Tayr (منطق الطير, "The Speech of the Birds") is a Sufi mathnawi by the Persian poet Attar, finished in 1187, in which birds journey through seven valleys to the Simurgh.
Mantle (geology)
The mantle is the mostly solid silicate layer of Earth between the crust and core, about 2,900 km thick, whose slow flow drives plate tectonics and volcanism.
Mantle (mollusc)
Mantle (mollusc): ectodermal molluscan tissue (pallium) secreting the calcium carbonate shell and periostracum, enclosing the mantle cavity with gills; typically three-folded margin, rapidly evolving secretome.
Mantle cell lymphoma
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma defined by t(11;14) cyclin D1 overexpression, about 5% of US NHL cases, median age 65, with indolent and aggressive subtypes and BTK inhibitor-based treatment.
Mantle cloak
A mantle cloak is an electromagnetic cloaking device: a thin patterned metasurface wrapped around an object whose induced currents cancel the object's scattered field, proposed by Andrea Alù in 2009.
Mantle convection
Mantle convection is the slow creeping flow of Earth's solid mantle, which moves a few centimeters per year and drives the plate tectonics responsible for earthquakes, mountain ranges, and volcanoes.
Mantle of Muhammad
The Mantle of Muhammad, known in Turkish as Hırka-i Saadet, is a cloak venerated in Islam as a garment of the Prophet Muhammad, kept at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
Mantle of Roger II
The Mantle of Roger II is a semicircular ceremonial cloak made in the royal workshop of Palermo in 1133/34 for Roger II, king of Norman Sicily.
Mantle plume
A mantle plume is a buoyant upwelling of hot, low-viscosity rock rising through Earth's mantle, proposed in the 1970s to explain hotspot volcanism; the classic example is the Hawaiian chain.
Mantle transition zone
The mantle transition zone (MTZ) is the layer of Earth's mantle between about 410 and 660 km depth, separating the upper mantle from the lower mantle.
Manto (2018 film)
Manto (मंटो) is a 2018 Hindi biographical drama by Nandita Das starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto; premiered at Cannes 2018, released 21 September 2018, banned in Pakistan, seven Filmfare nominations.
Manto Fossae
Manto Fossae: a 536 km system of fossae, long narrow linear depressions, on Venus at 63.6°N, 64.9°E, IAU-named in 1991 for a Greek war goddess, part of the Sigrun-Manto deformation belt near Fortuna Tessera.
Manto Mavrogenous
Manto Mavrogenous (Μαντώ Μαυρογένους) was a Greek heroine of the War of Independence, known as the Heroine of Mykonos, who funded the war with her inherited fortune.
Mantodea
Mantodea, the praying mantises or mantids, is an order of about 2,500 predatory insect species with raptorial spined forelegs and triangular heads, sister group to Blattodea within Dictyoptera, with a Paleozoic origin and rapid post-K-Pg radiation.
Mantou (馒头)
Mantou (馒头) is Chinese steamed bread, a fermented wheat staple of northern China, earliest attested in Western Jin texts; the Zhuge Liang origin legend is a later Song-era attribution, and related buns spread to Korea, Japan and Central Asia.
Mantoux test
Mantoux tuberculin skin test (TST, PPD test): intradermal injection of 0.1 mL purified protein derivative read at 48-72 hours by induration in mm; CDC cut points 5, 10, 15 mm; developed by Mantoux 1908.
Mantra (Jennie song)
"Mantra" (만트라) is an October 11, 2024 single by Blackpink's Jennie, her first release under Odd Atelier with Columbia Records and lead single of Ruby; a chant-along self-confidence track that hit Billboard Hot 100 no. 98 and UK no. 37.
Mantra (मन्त्र)
A mantra (मन्त्र) is a sacred utterance, syllable, word, or verse believed to possess spiritual efficacy, central to Hindu ritual since the Vedic hymns of about 1500–1200 BCE.
Mantras (Alien Ant Farm album)
Mantras (stylized ~mAntras~) is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alien Ant Farm, released April 26, 2024 on Megaforce/MRI, their first album in nine years, self-produced in Mike Cosgrove's home studio, including a Wham! cover.
Mantsoe a Basotho
Mantsoe a Basotho, "the words of the Basotho," is a Sesotho term for the oral vocabulary and expressions of the Basotho people, above all their proverbs.