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ant-heap

ant-heap noun: an ant-hill.

Noun

ant-heap (plural ant-heaps)

  1. An ant-hill.
    • All along the Coast we have ant-heaps ten feet high, and more in diameter.1901 April 12, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 75
    • The floor was made of crushed ant-heap, the hard dome of excavated earth above an ant colony, and was kept smooth by smearing it regularly with fresh cow dung.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 9

Forms of ant-heap

pluralant-heaps

Questions about ant-heap

What does ant-heap mean?
Ant-heap means an ant-hill.
What part of speech is ant-heap?
Ant-heap is a noun.
What is the plural of ant-heap?
The plural of ant-heap is ant-heaps.

Words near ant-heap in the dictionary

  1. ant-beds
  2. ant-blue
  3. ant-blues
  4. ant-eater
  5. ant-eaters
  6. ant-heap
  7. ant-heaps
  8. ant-hill
  9. ant-hills
  10. ant-plant
  11. ant-plants

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