How To Use White ant In A Sentence
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The rooms are built from makuti palm-matting woven by local villagers, and rebuilt every six years as the white ants gradually devour them.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lodge is built from cypress pine, a standard building material in the mallee country, due largely to its resistance to white ants.
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Grey weathered posts, with white ant mounds creeping up around them, mark the boundary.
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Cold-water coral mound dominated by Lophelia pertusa and colonised by orange actinians and a white anthipathrian.
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It is crumbling worldwide like a white ant infested edifice along with its credibility.
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The gene Wa (white anthers) was mapped previously to the interval between markers dl (dialytic) and ae (entirely anthocyaninless) and distal to Got - 4 on the long arm of chromosome 8.
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The must-have accessories were whistles, bandanas, and white anti-poverty wrist-bands.
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Showcases and galleries in the new museum are made from iroko, an African hardwood resistant to the advances of the white ant, which arrived on the island in 1840.
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Earl Hecker sat outside the room where nurses were applying white antimicrobial cream to burned soldiers.
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Exquisitely bewhiskered; stark, white antenna, straight as power lines, centred on his nose, dynamically oscillating.
BEHINDLINGS
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The most important differential characteristics of the section Trionychon are branched stems, bracteolate flowers, an entire and campanulated calyx, a blue or purple corolla, white anthers, and the stigma usually white.
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A favourite set target is the bulbous formicary of the white ant which disfigures so many of the trees of the forest.
My Tropic Isle
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Some put the nets around anthills to catch white ants, a traditional snack.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blue kingfisher is investigating the tumour made by white ants in the bloodwood wherein the nest is annually excavated, and soon the chattering notes of the pair will be heard.
Tropic Days
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The must-have accessories were whistles, bandanas, and white anti-poverty wrist-bands.
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His newscasts are announced by a familiar jingle, and the newsroom is a white antiseptic box.
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Exquisitely bewhiskered; stark, white antenna, straight as power lines, centred on his nose, dynamically oscillating.
BEHINDLINGS
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Several miles further on a solitary upstanding column of rock represented an opossum man who rested here, looked about the country, and left spirit children behind him; a low range of remarkably white quartzite hills indicated a large number of white ant eggs thrown here in the _wingara_ [146] by the Munga-munga women as they passed across the country.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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_white ants_ or termites (which are ants only by a misnomer).
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Only Clive and Kenna talked racily, but in jerks, of cattle, fruit-blight, mules, and white ants.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa