Meaning of "white ant" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF WHITE ANT

white ant

WHAT DOES WHITE ANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Termite

Termites are a group of eusocial insects that, until recently, were classified at the taxonomic rank of order Isoptera, but are now accepted as the infraorder Isoptera, of the cockroach order Blattodea. While termites are commonly known, especially in Australia, as "white ants", they are for practical purposes unrelated to the ants. Like ants, and some bees and wasps—which are all placed in the separate order Hymenoptera—termites divide labor among castes, produce overlapping generations and take care of young collectively. Termites mostly feed on dead plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, soil, or animal dung, and about 10% of the estimated 4,000 species are economically significant as pests that can cause serious structural damage to buildings, crops or plantation forests. Termites are major detritivores, particularly in the subtropical and tropical regions, and their recycling of wood and other plant matter is of considerable ecological importance. As eusocial insects, termites live in colonies that, at maturity, number from several hundred to several million individuals.

TRANSLATION OF WHITE ANT

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

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

• Translator English - Chinese: 白蚂蚁
• Translator English - Spanish: hormiga blanca
• English: white ant
• Translator English - Hindi: सफेद चींटी
• Translator English - Arabic: النمل الأبيض
• Translator English - Russian: термит
• Translator English - Portuguese: formiga branca
• Translator English - Bengali: সাদা পিঁপড়া
• Translator English - French: fourmi blanche
• Translator English - Malay: Semut putih
• Translator English - German: Termite
• Translator English - Japanese: シロアリ
• Translator English - Korean: 흰색 개미
• Translator English - Javanese: Putih semut
• Translator English - Vietnamese: kiến trắng
• Translator English - Tamil: வெள்ளை எறும்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: पांढरी मुंगी
• Translator English - Turkish: Beyaz karınca
• Translator English - Italian: formica bianca
• Translator English - Polish: white ant
• Translator English - Ukrainian: терміт
• Translator English - Romanian: furnică albă
• Translator English - Greek: λευκό μυρμήγκι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: wit mier
• Translator English - Swedish: vit ant
• Translator English - Norwegian: hvit maur

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHITE ANT»

Discover the use of white ant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to white ant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Soul of the White Ant

This is a new edition of this title. The text has been extensively re-edited for today's reader.

Eugene Marais, 2009

The Life of the White Ant

1927. Contents: The Termitary; The Problem of Nutrition; The Workers; The Soldiers; The Royal Pair; The Swarming; The Devastations; The Occult Power; The Morality of the Termitary; Their Destiny; and Instinct and Intelligence.

Maurice Maeterlinck, 2005

The Soul of the White Ant: A Surreal Comedy

A Surreal Comedy Snoo Wilson. (MARAIS grips the juke-box. The juke-box lights, plays a few bars and then goes out. MARAIS lets go; turns. PIETER crosses Down Stage Right to jukebox and holds out beer.) Wash your face this round?

Snoo Wilson, 1983

Why the White Ant Is So Destructive and Other Folk Tales

This is the first in the new Folktale Time's African series which retells the best folktales of Africa in simple language so that they are accessible to both African readers and readers from other cultures.

Ebenezer Hayfron-Benjamin, 2001

The Life of the Ant

Here are the essential features of the life of the ants, a life incontestably superior to that of the bees, which is precarious in the extreme,In his unique studies of the social insects: the bee, the termite (or white ant) and the ant, ...

Maurice Maeterlinck, 2001

Universal Geography, Or, a Description of All the Parts of ...

There are many kinds of ants ; the most remarkable are the destructive white ant, the great red ant, which builds its nest on trees by connecting together a number of leaves with a glutinous cement i ; the common red ant, which abounds in ...

Conrad Malte-Brun, 1822

The Indian Forester

I notice that in these forests the white ant is everywhere, but I cannot as yet discover any damage that he is doing. The young Sal that were annually burnt have now strong healthy shoots, in some instances even 25 feet or more high. The old ...

‎1882

Official Yearbook of New South Wales

Durability, hardness with age, resistance to white ant. Durability Strength and durability, resistance to white ant. Cummon Name. Species. Stout Long Tom Sea Garfish River Garfish. Principal Uses. Tool handles, flooring, lining. Paving, house ...

Australia. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics. New South Wales Office, New South Wales. Bureau of Statistics and Economics, 1906

Official Year Book of New South Wales

Bed Hardwood*. Red Mahogany North Coast districts (i?. resini/era). do do Grey Gum Durability, hardness with age, resistance to white ant. Tool handles, flooring , lining. Paving, house and ship building, railway waggons, sleepers, planking, ...

‎1906

Official year book of New South Wales

Strength and durability, resistance to white ant. Weight, strength, durability, hardness, inlockcd 1Train. Straightness of grain, ease of working, and du nihility. Weight, durability, wavy grain. Durability, resistance to splitting on exposure.

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, New South Wales. Bureau of Statistics and Economics, 1906

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHITE ANT»

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Furniture stores and the white ant of debt

This is a political issue. As a country, we have to realise that recklessly lent retail credit is like a white ant steadily hollowing out our national financial health. «BDlive, Jul 15»

Dominic Ongwen - Born At the Time of the White Ant, Tried By the ICC

Shortly, Dominic Ongwen will be the first commander of an internationally listed terrorist organisation to give acte de presence at the International Criminal Court ... «AllAfrica.com, Jan 15»

Don't burn down the house to kill the white ants

A woman wearing an African National Congress T-shirt washes her laundry in Du Noon township, near Cape Town. Picture: REUTERS/MARK WESSELS ... «BDlive, Jan 15»

Profile: Dominic Ongwen of Uganda's LRA

Known as the White Ant, Dominic Ongwen was a 10-year-old boy walking to school in northern Uganda when he was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army ... «BBC News, Jan 15»

UNEMBARGOED: Beware the white-ant infestation

The point is a political term called "white-anting" in Australia. White ants are known to invade wooden structures and hollow them out. They may retain a robust ... «BDlive, Jan 15»

Court orders $56000 in damages after termite barrier fails

The White Ant Company did not design, manufacture, supply or install the Termite Tite barrier. However, it assumed responsibility for it on the Robsons' contract. «Bundaberg News Mail, Dec 14»

Rocky white ants suspected to be voracious West Indian kind

Rocky white ants suspected to be voracious West Indian kind .... and tallow wood, harder than steel so too tough for any white ant to chew on, so far anyway. «Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, Dec 14»

'The Soul of the White Ant', Eugène Marais

"The termitary", wrote the South African naturalist Eugène Marais in The Soul of the White Ant (the 1937 translation of the Afrikaans Die Siel van die Mier, ... «Open Democracy, Feb 07»