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Meaning of "formicary" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FORMICARY

From Medieval Latin formīcārium see formic.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FORMICARY

ˈfɔːmɪkərɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FORMICARY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Formicary is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FORMICARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ant colony

An ant colony is the basic family unit around which ants organize their lifecycle. Ant colonies are eusocial, and are very much like those found in other social Hymenoptera, though the various groups of these developed sociality independently through convergent evolution. The typical colony consists of one or more egg-laying queens, a large number of sterile females and, seasonally, a large number of winged sexual males and females. Periodically, swarms of the winged sexuals depart the nest in great nuptial flights. The males die shortly thereafter, along with most of the females. A small percentage of the females survive to initiate new nests.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FORMICARY

apothecary · bakery · bibliothecary · chiccory · chicory · cookery · fakery · fikery · flickery · hickory · hypothecary · pickery · pothecary · rakery · snickery · spikery · Terpsichore · trickery · vicary · Zachary

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FORMICARY

formerly · formfitting · formful · formic · formic acid · Formica · formicant · formicaria · formicaries · formicarium · formicate · formication · formidability · formidable · formidableness · formidably · formless · formlessly · formlessness · formol

WORDS THAT END LIKE FORMICARY

anniversary · collared peccary · contemporary · diary · dictionary · elementary · February · Gary · Hungary · January · library · Mary · military · necessary · on the contrary · peccary · piscary · scary · unscary · white-lipped peccary

Synonyms and antonyms of formicary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «formicary» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF FORMICARY

Find out the translation of formicary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of formicary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «formicary» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

蚁巢
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

hormiguero
570 millions of speakers
en

English

formicary
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

formicary
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

formicary
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

муравейник
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

formigueiro
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

পিঁপড়ার বাসা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

fourmilière
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Formatur
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Ameisen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

개미집
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Formasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

formicary
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

formicary
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

फॉर्मिकरी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

karınca yuvası
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

formicary
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

formicary
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

мурашник
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

furnicar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μυρμηγκιάσματα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

miere hoop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

formicary
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

formicary
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of formicary

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FORMICARY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of formicary
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about formicary

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORMICARY»

Discover the use of formicary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to formicary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Time Machine
Doomed. Formicary. versus. the. Technological. Sublime. BRIAN W. ALDISS What Wonders 'gin to be our lot When Evolution spins the plot! —Shakespeare, Vortigern The zebra problem has been solved. It is a black animal with white stripes, ...
George Edgar Slusser, Patrick Parrinder, Danièle Chatelain, 2001
2
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Attention was next directed to our large Pennsylvania Carpenter ant ( Camponotus I'emixylKanicux), and a series of experiments made of the same nature as the above. In his study was an artificial formicary of those insects, which had been ...
‎1879
3
Report of the State Entomologist on the Noxious and ...
August 15, 1905, a wandering lone queen placed in a formicary inclosure with five males from another locality killed two of them the same day. During the following night two stray worker ants of her species entered the formicary thru a crevice ...
‎1908
4
Annual Report on the Noxious and Beneficial Insects of the ...
August 15, 1905, a wandering lone queen placed in a formicary inclosure with five males from another locality lcilled two of them the same day. During the following night two stray worker ants of her species entered the formicary thru a crevice ...
‎1909
5
Publications: Entomology]
August 15, 1905, a wandering lone queen placed in a formicary inclosure with five males from another locality killed two of them the same day. During the following night two stray worker ants of her species entered the formicary thru a crevice ...
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907
6
Report
One of these females was placed October 25 in a Lubbock formicary between sheets of glass and fed with sugar. November 5 she had made an oval chamber in the earth (exposed above where it came in contact with the glass), and from this ...
Illinois. State entomologist, 1920
7
Bulletin
August 15, 1905, a wandering lone queen placed in a formicary inclosure with five males from another locality killed two of them the same day. During the following night two stray worker ants of her species entered the formicary thru a crevice ...
‎1906
8
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences
Attention was next directed to our large Pennsylvania Carpenter ant ( Camponotus Pennxyleanicus), and a series of experiments made of the same nature as the above. In his study was an artificial formicary of those insects, which had been ...
9
Sketch of the Habits of North American Ants
At Cromwell, in the brush of a cleared woodlot, I had the good fortune to be present at the attack on a formicary of huge F. subsericea by a feeble band of F. sanguinea, smaller and much less numerous. The sanguinea were scarcely thirty in ...
Auguste Forel, 1901
10
Roots of Ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel
Ants kill caterpillars placed on their formicary and sometimes those encountered on elm trees. The best way to clean a skeleton was to bury the animal in a formicary. Several species of spider lay eggs on folded leaves, and the mother stays ...
Frank N. Egerton, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORMICARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term formicary is used in the context of the following news items.
1
RGF Granted Patents for their Fin Saver(TM) Device
The Fin Saver was designed, engineered and is manufactured by RGF in the USA to fight galvanic and formicary corrosion in HVAC and ... «ThomasNet News, Jun 15»
2
Regulations, Refrigerants Revolutionize Coils
The all-aluminum design reduces the chance for formicary corrosion, and a single continuous (monolithic) tube/fin increases tube fin efficiency ... «ACHR NEWS, Jun 15»
3
Transcona-raised pro wrestler Kenny Omega is literally big in Japan
TOKYO, Japan — All day long, the formicary train stations of Tokyo spew out many kinds of people: salarymen marching rhythms with freshly ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Mar 15»
4
Troubling Pinhole Leaks in Evaporator Coils Cause Corrosion Issues
It has little to do with R-410A in the system. Formicary (literally ant nest) coil corrosion has been occurring throughout the industry for years, on all manufacturers' ... «ACHR NEWS, Oct 14»
5
Getting Warmer: When Menopause Came For Me
The noun formicary means ant nest. And that's what it felt like: ants, the red biting kind, sneaking under my blouse and marching across my ... «WBUR, Oct 14»
6
Schools Strive for Efficiency, Comfort
The result can cause thermal transfer degradation and copper piping leaks from formicary and pitting corrosion. To help prevent line set ... «ACHR NEWS, Aug 14»
7
A Look at Today's Geothermal Heat Pumps
An all-aluminum microchannel heat exchanger air coil eliminates failures due to formicary corrosion, while improving overall efficiency. «ACHR NEWS, Jul 14»
8
World Cup 2014: England's travelling fans face language trouble in …
Rather the Three Lions are moving like ants around a complicated concrete formicary, but even in one of the world's largest urban metropolises ... «The Independent, Jun 14»
9
Business critical collaboration with Annekathrin Hase from MindLink …
In 2011 we spun out of our mother company, Formicary, to focus solely on providing advanced, purposeful collaboration solutions to ... «Social Media Portal, Jan 14»
10
Week Adjourned: 11.8.13 - Wacoal iPant, Lennox A/C, J&J Risperdal
The company is facing a defective products class action lawsuit alleging its air conditioning units are susceptible to formicary corrosion as a ... «LawyersandSettlements.com, Nov 13»
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