Termite



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• n.白蚁
• ［类］ pun : joke / termite : insect ( 双关语是一种笑话 / 白蚁是一种昆虫)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: New Latin Termit-, Termes, genus of termites, from Late Latin, a worm that eats wood, alteration of Latin tarmit-, tarmes; akin to Greek tetrainein to bore — more at throw
• Date: 1781
• any of numerous pale-colored soft-bodied social insects (order Isoptera) that live in colonies consisting usually of winged sexual forms, wingless sterile workers, and soldiers, feed on wood, and include some which are very destructive to wooden structures and trees — called also white ant

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