Mā'nis, n.

n. [N. Lat., from Lat. manes, the ghosts or shades of the dead, a corpse; so called from its dismal appearance, and because it seeks for its food by night.] (Zool.) A genus of edentate mammals, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants, &c.; the pangolin.