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Definition of Antlike
1. Adjective. Resembling an ant. Often used specifically in reference to apparent size or significance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Antlike
1. resembling an ant [adj] - See also: ant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antlike
Literary usage of Antlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"Usually this form of antlike bee is captured by the European as the author of
the horrible stench, which (as in the pismire ants) is really produced by the ..."
2. Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers by John Henry Comstock (1901)
"G. Abdomen broadly joined to the thorax. H. Body linear. ( Walking-sticks) Page 70.
ORTHOPTERA. HH. Body white and somewhat antlike in form. (Ter- mes. ..."
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"At last he had understood: and human life lay around him, a plain of peace whereon
antlike men laboured in brotherhood, their dead sleeping under quiet ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1833)
"... when during a severe winter they wanted to get corn from the antlike Thessalians,
unwilling at such a period to part with the staff of life. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... of the same or an allied species found in Mashonaland were observed in the
hying state to be green with the antlike parts represented in black pigment. ..."
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