英语词汇“anteater”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

ant /ant/

noun

A small, hymenopterous, scavenging (or sometimes predacious) social insect (family Formicidae), of proverbial industry, living in organized colonies

Loosely, a termite

ORIGIN: OE ǣmete; cf emmet

antˈing noun

The introduction by birds of live ants or other stimulants into their plumage, possibly as a pleasurable means of cleaning it and their skin

antˈbear noun

The great anteater, the largest species of anteaters, found in swampy regions in S America

The aardvark of S Africa

antˈbird noun

A S American ant thrush

ant cow noun

An aphis kept and tended by ants for its honeydew

antˈeater noun

Any one of a Central and S American family of edentates, adapted for feeding on ants and termites
A pangolin
An aardvark
An echidna

antˈ- or ants’ˈ-eggs plural noun

Pupae of ants

antˈ-hill noun

A hillock raised as a nest in wood, soil, etc by ants or by termites
Anything like an ant-hill in terms of crowdedness, bustle, etc (figurative)

antˈlion noun

A neuropterous insect (esp genus Myrmeleon) similar to a damselfly, whose larvae trap ants in a funnel-shaped sand-hole

ant'pitta noun

Any of several S American birds related to the ant thrushes

ant thrush noun

Any bird of the northern S American family Formicariidae which feeds on insects disturbed by travelling ants, or of the long-legged thrush-like Asian and Australian family Pittidae

have ants in one's pants (informal)

To be restless, impatient, needlessly hurrying