white ant
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The most important point in the work of the white ant remains to be noted. I have already said that the white ant is never seen."
- "The most voracious cable-muncher in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of Australia is the termite, or white ant, which eats through both lead and polythene sheathings."
- "1990 December 13, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page D.3, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy to hear that the hon. Member appreciates the fact that white ants cause a lot [of] destruction in his area. There is very little we can do about white ants."
- "White ants destroy living plants by removing the epidermal layers, effectively ‘ringbarking’ the subject."
- "Our house was built on a hard ferruginous conglomerate, in order to be out of the way of the white ant, but they came in despite the precaution;[…]."