Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mound of soil, sand, or dirt formed by ants or termites in digging or building a nest.
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- noun A cone-shaped formation constructed from
sediment and other available materials by ants or termites. The colony nests underneath this cone.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Each ant in an anthill is doing this or that, but the anthill itself is doing something else. cogito, ergo Mixner non sum Says:
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Now maybe a thousand kilometers away from our anthill is another anthill.
Vatican Holds Conference on Extraterrestrial Life | Universe Today 2009
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Not all of the faceless residents of the "anthill" are as lucky as Huang.
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Not all of the faceless residents of the "anthill" are as lucky as Huang.
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Her forehead was swelling like an anthill, with beads of blood flowing out of it instead of insects.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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Driving for three hours was like knocking over an anthill and daring a hundred little creatures to gnaw on my nerve endings.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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Haunted by memories of the terrible mistake that drove him to this island and away from a successful career as a surgeon, he lives in a stasis so complete an anthill grows undisturbed in his living room.
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Her forehead was swelling like an anthill, with beads of blood flowing out of it instead of insects.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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Haunted by memories of the terrible mistake that drove him to this island and away from a successful career as a surgeon, he lives in a stasis so complete an anthill grows undisturbed in his living room.
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Driving for three hours was like knocking over an anthill and daring a hundred little creatures to gnaw on my nerve endings.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
vanishedone commented on the word anthill
I can't decide whether or not the two WeirdNet definitions contradict each other; I suppose it depends on the definition of natural.
September 24, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word anthill
Regarding the fossil evidence of dinosaur-age mammals found in anthills: "It has been found that in addition to ordinary sand-grains certain of the anthills also contain fossils, tiny teeth, bone fragments, and in rare instances perfect bones that the ants had unconsciously collected and have been the source of much of our knowledge of smaller forms which were contemporaneous with the larger reptiles." - Popular Science Monthly, September, 1915, p. 241.
March 8, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word anthill
"After the Indian camp has broken up and moved away, many Indian beads can usually be found on the outside of the anthills." Ants Ornamenting Their Homes, St. Nicholas: a Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, Volume 27, Part 1, p. 549, 1900.
March 8, 2011