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anthill

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ant·hill  (nthl)
n.
A mound of soil, sand, or dirt formed by ants or termites in digging or building a nest.
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Noun1.anthillanthill - a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest
hammock, hillock, hummock, knoll, mound - a small natural hill
Translations
anthill [ˈænthɪl] Nhormiguero m


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To engage the Marines, Kuribayashi eschews traditional defenses in favor of an elaborate, imaginative use of caves and tunnels that transforms Mount Suribachi into a human anthill.
3) Built of perishable materials (mostly comprising anthill clay), few Mbari artifacts have survived and fewer still are represented in Western collections of African art.
And a seemingly never-ending procession of leafcutter ants tack diagonally across the next spot in the trail on a pheromone-driven mission to and from their monolithic anthills.
 
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