Termite

Definitions

1. A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.
2. A contemptible person.

Equivalents

Examples

“Linnæus describes this insect under the Latin name⟳ of Termes; and citizen Cuvier speaks of it under that of Termites. The vulgar call⟳ it by that of white ant, or fourmi vaguevague. The termites divide⟳ themselves into societies: each society builds itself a next, and each nest belongs to an innumerable quantity of these insects, who acknowledge for their chiefs a king and a queen.”

“This two faced termite has the nerve to talk⟳.”

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