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Termite

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

n. Any of numerous pale-colored, usually soft-bodied social insects of the order Isoptera that live mostly in warm regions and many species of which feed on wood, often destroying trees and wooden structures. Also called white ant.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A white bodied, wood-consuming insect of the epifamily Termitoidae, order Blattodea.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Any one of numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to Termes and allied genera; -- called also white ant. See Illust. of white ant.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A white ant; any member of the Termitidæ.

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

n. whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood

Word Usage

"Energy efficient buildings inspired by passive cooling in termite mounds and non-toxic fabric finishes inspired by water repellant lotus plants are examples of biomimicry changing our world today."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

insect

Cross Reference

neoteinic termite

Variant

white ant

Hyponym

reticulitermes flanipes mastotermes electrodominicus dry-wood termite mastotermes electromexicus reticulitermes lucifugus mastotermes darwiniensis

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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