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ant-beds

ant-beds is the plural of ant-bed.

Meaning of ant-bed

Noun

ant-bed (usually uncountable, plural ant-beds)

  1. (Australia, usually) Termite mounds, crushed and watered, used as flooring material.
    • The meat house had an ant-bed floor and the old blackboy and I dug that ant-bed out, carted it away about fifty yards and shovelled it into a gully. And then we built another ant-bed floor.1912, Fred King, "Born to Floods and Drought" in Marion Houldsworth, ed. Barefoot Through the Bindies, Salisbury, QLD: Boolarong Press, 2012, p. 112...

Questions about ant-beds

What is ant-beds the plural of?
Ant-beds is the plural of ant-bed.

Words near ant-beds in the dictionary

  1. ant's pants
  2. ant-
  3. ant-bear
  4. ant-bears
  5. ant-bed
  6. ant-beds
  7. ant-blue
  8. ant-blues
  9. ant-eater
  10. ant-eaters
  11. ant-heap

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