anthill
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- noun
- /ˈænˌθɪl/
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hormiguero
- While exploring the garden, the children found an anthill teeming with ants busy at work.
And so he hides behind some higher big anthills that that are in the area.
- And so he hides behind some higher big anthills that that are in the area.
- And right outside of our base we have this, this hill called the Anthill, and it was brilliant.
- Hard to be a God beetle in an anthill.
- In the same way that ants construct an anthill or birds, you know, know how to flock together to.
- Anthills, there is no leader, sorry, there is no central command in an anthill and bird flocks.
- It's not that they are going to go out of their way to destroy us, but more like how we consider an anthill when we're building a road.
- Once there were some other things I would bring them, bring these items to this anthill and I would deposit it for the ants to eat.
- Super Intelligence looks at you the way someone laying the foundation for a house looks at an anthill.
- Edfard Munk said that the playwright Henrik Ibsen, who was older than him, had thrown a log into the anthill.
- I'm talking about going to Bolivia and finding an indigenous tribe that makes adulterous stand in anthills to get bitten.
Examples
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One day, we were playing out back, down by the river... ...and we came across the most beautiful anthill you ever saw.
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Mickey is sprawled in the dirt, tirelessly examining an anthill he discovered beneath a deep crimson maple leaf.
Fiction book (1998) -
Or he could bury it deep in the anthill, and it would stay there, their secret.
Fiction book (1995) -
Noiselessly, he steps away from the anthill into the sunlight.
Fiction book (1996) -
You look inside an anthill, holy cow, there's a whole world and vibrancy.
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In the yard were several anthills whose inhabitants paved paths of plunder to the storeroom.
Fiction book (1994) -
The anthill near the oak tree was large and carefully constructed by the colony.
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She observed the tiny ants marching in and out of the anthill as they carried food to their nest.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word anthill comes from the two simple parts ant and hill. It means a small 'hill' that ants make from soil as they dig and build their nest, so the name tells you exactly what it is.