| 单词 | ant-heap earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasant-heap earth ant heap n. (a) = anthill n. 1a, 2; (b) (chiefly South African) the earth and other materials of which anthills consist, esp. when used in construction to make hard surfaces; also as a modifier, as in ant-heap earth, ant-heap floor, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > that form ant-hills > ant-hill anthilleOE ant bedeOE pismire hill1440 maur-hill?c1475 maur house?c1475 ant heap1591 molehill1610 ant-hillock1656 bank1667 sprout hill1766 formicary1816 ant mound1830 formicarium1834 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. Hormiguero, an ant heape, Formicarium, myrmicetum. 1757 T. Coe Treat. Biliary Concretions v. 288 Curing the jaundice..was to be done by the patients pissing upon an ant heap. 1859 E. Burritt in S. Smiles Self-help 82 That plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant-heap. 1869 Student & Intellect. Observer 3 339 The ‘ant-heap’..is put to a great diversity of purposes in the constructive arts. 1901 W. L. Sclater Mammals S. Afr. II. 220 The aard-vark..make an opening in the side of the ant-heap and then collect the ants by means of their sticky tongues. 1995 N. R. Mandela Long Walk to Freedom i. ii. 7 The floor was made of crushed ant-heap. 2007 L. St John Rainbow's End (2008) 43 For reasons unknown, Charm had decided to take a shortcut over the ant heap. 2015 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Nexis) 29 Jan. The earliest farmsteads were nondescript three-room dwellings hastily constructed from rough stone, earth and clay; later smoothed over using ant-heap earth. < as lemmas |
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