termite
English Thesaurus
1. whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | insect, |
| definition | : | small air-breathing arthropod (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dry-wood termite, |
| definition | : | any of various termites that live in and feed on dry wood that is not connected with the soil (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | mastotermes darwiniensis, |
| definition | : | Australian termite; sole living species of Mastotermes; called a living fossil; apparent missing link between cockroaches and termites (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | isoptera, order isoptera, |
| definition | : | order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota (noun.animal) |
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