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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. 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.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

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

Examples

  • “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.”

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  • “Suddenly the termite is everywhere, from Popular Science to Congressional Quarterly Today to Wired.”

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  • “Hugenholtz interrupted, quoting a colleague: “Maybe the termite is just a fancy delivery system for the creatures in the gut.””

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  • “He thinks that searching for individual enzymes in the termite will be a dead end, but that harnessing the power of whole environments might yield results.”

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  • “She went to Taipei Nobel Eye Clinic where a nurse found some white residue on her contact lens that was later identified as termite eggs.”

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  • “Earlier work at Gombe National Park in Tanzania found that wild chimps living there tended to use their left hands when engaging in a practice known as termite fishing, she noted.”

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  • “This is just a "termite" approach to complete confiscation of guns and disarming of our society to the point we have no defense - chip away a little here and there until the goal is accomplished before anyone realizes it.”

    H.R. 45 - Gun Licensing, Fines and Confiscation - SB 2099 This is information I received in the an email.

  • “This is just a "termite" approach to complete confiscation of guns and disarming of our society to the point we have no defense - chip away a little here and there until the goal is accomplished before anyone realizes it ..”

    2010 tax on your firearms Is this really true ?

  • “This is just a "termite" approach to complete confiscation of guns and disarming of our society to the point we have nodefense - chip away a little here and there until the goal is accomplished before anyone realizes it.”

    When 1st and 2nd Amendment Conflict: Protests, Guns and Double Standards

  • “Natural factors include the energy from the sun; periodic volcanic eruptions of tiny particles, dust, and salt spray — all known as aerosols­­ — many that can reflect sunlight; and natural carbon cycle processes such as termite mounds in Africa that emit methane or tiny organisms in the ocean surface that take up carbon dioxide.”

    Climate Challenge ~ An Interview with Climate Scientist Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel

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hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. insect

hyponyms (6)

Words that are more specific

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

same context (26)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. cockroach
  2. earthworm
  3. grasshopper
  4. locust
  5. ant
  1. maggot
  2. flea
  3. beetle
  4. weevil
  5. caterpillar
  1. rodent
  2. snail
  3. borers
  4. grub
  5. invertebrate
  1. moth
  2. wasp
  3. gnat
  4. lizard
  5. vermin
  1. larva
  2. louse
  3. spider
  4. pest
  5. cricket
  1. chrysalis

reverse dictionary (15)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. powder-post termite
  2. reticulitermes flanipes
  3. reticulitermes lucifugus
  1. mastotermes darwiniensis
  2. mastotermes electrodominicus
  3. mastotermes electromexicus
  1. cryptotermes brevis
  2. white ant
  3. termes
  1. termitine
  2. soldier
  3. king
  1. queen
  2. wood ant
  3. wood louse

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  • chained_bear "Snooper earned her Beacon Termite Detection Canine Certificate by correctly alerting to fifty consecutive termite-infested sites. Her framed graduation certificate hangs in the office, a reassuring guarantee that, for $190, Snooper can locate wood-munching pests with an accuracy greater than ninety-eight percent.

    "Now, Snooper is an ace termite finder, better than any machine. In 1996, at a Pennsylvania entomology conference, a beagle took on the newest mechanical termite-divining device and a high-tech fiber-optic detector. The dog blew both machines away. The final termite-colony detection score: beagle, 12; machines, 2."
    —Merrily Weisbord and Kim Kachanoff, Dogs with Jobs: Working Dogs Around the World (NY and London: Pocket Books, 2000), 63 Jul 24, 2009

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