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Empusa

Empusa

See also: empusa

Translingual

Empusa pennata

Proper noun

Empusa

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Empusidae mantises.

empusa

empusa

See also: Empusa

English

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Noun

empusa (plural empusas or empusae)

  1. (mythology) In Ancient Greek mythology, a kind of spectre sent by Hecate to guard roads and devour travellers.