单词 | wood-ant |
释义 | > as lemmaswood-ant wood-ant n. (a) a large ant, Formica rufa, living in woods; (b) a termite or white ant, which burrows in wood. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Isoptera > member(s) of (termites) white ant1625 wood-ant1709 termes1773 termite1781 termite ant1815 duck-ant1851 magnetic termite1935 mudguts1952 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > family Formicidae or genus Formica > formica rufa (horse-ant) red anteOE horse ant1721 horse-emmet1755 wood-ant1889 1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. 90 in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland The Wood-Ant feeds upon Leaves. 1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 140 In the West Indies, [they are called] Wood Lice, Wood Ants, or White Ants. 1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 33 Length of the wood-ant (F. rufa) three-eighths of an inch. < as lemmas |
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