duck ant

English

Etymology

Its shape is supposed to resemble that of a duck.

Noun

duck ant (plural duck ants)

  1. A kind of white termite in Jamaica, Nasutitermes pilifrons, which builds large nests in trees.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for duck ant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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