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Pismire

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An ant.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An ant.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An ant, or emmet.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An ant or emmet.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

Word Usage

"So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether he is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

hymenopter hymenopteron hymenopteran hymenopterous insect

Hyponym

slave-maker fire ant carpenter ant driver ant slave ant wood ant little black ant monomorium minimum formica rufa monomorium pharaonis

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

subside puce dualities