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Meanings of white ant in English

Portuguese
cupins
Catalan
tèrmit
Spanish
hormiga blanca

A soft-bodied insect of the order Isoptera; individuals feed on cellulose and live in colonies with a caste system comprising three types of functional individuals: sterile workers and soldiers, and the reproductives.

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Examples for "termite"
1
He swerved to avoid a termite mound that suddenly loomed into view.
The clouds beneath the sun
2
Perhaps the company erred in hoping for a termite or an ant.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
3
With termite grenades you've got to get out of the way quickly.
Broken angels
4
But to make sure, she decided to call in some termite specialists.
Ghosts
5
The house had holes burnt through the floor and live termite nests.
News.com.au
Usage of white ant in English
1
They enter the hole, and they destroy every white ant in the building.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
2
The wood is impervious to the attacks of the white ant.
Spinifex and Sand / A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Ex...
3
The white ant can destroy fleets and cities, and the locusts erase a province.
Endymion
4
The innumerable high white ant-hills are the only dry spots.
Ismailia
5
Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
6
The sharp conical hills of the white ant, constructed of red clay, were very numerous.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia / From Moreton Ba...
7
These ants never make hills like the white ant.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
8
Angela used him like a puppet last night to white ant Ian and get him evicted.
News.com.au
9
But Marcel pointed at the domed huts which looked so like a collection of white ant heaps.
The Heart of Unaga
10
The white ant is always eaten raw.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and ...
11
Instantly a white ant was seen to appear through the opening thus made, apparently surveying the damage done.
In the Wilds of Africa
12
The white ant is never visible.
The New McGuffey Fourth Reader
13
The white ant is sometimes seen.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
14
Still, the white ant can never procure food until it does come above the surface of the soil.
The New McGuffey Fourth Reader
15
Whilst Long was working away like a white ant, Hobson communicated the result of his observations to Mrs Barnett.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
16
The white ant is a small insect, the body being of a yellowish white color, and repulsive in appearance.
The New McGuffey Fourth Reader
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tèrmit
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