termes
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
termes (plural termites)
- A termite.
- 1781, Henry Smeathman in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society LXXI, page 160:
- These turret nests, built by two different species of Termites.
- 1800, The Asiatic Annual Register, page 5/2:
- The termes, or what is called the white ant, infests this island.
- 1834, Thomas Pringle, African Sketches, chapter viii, page 287:
- The termes of South Africa is not the destructive species.
- 1781, Henry Smeathman in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society LXXI, page 160:
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