anthill
A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or…A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.
» There is an anthill here.
Es gibt hier einen Ameisenhügel.
Meaning
1 sensesA cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests.
Ameisenhaufen, Ameisenhügel
мураве́йникmuravéjnik
мура́шникmurášnyk
- a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest
Examples
8 sentencesThere is an anthill here.
deEs gibt hier einen Ameisenhügel.
He stuck a straw into an anthill.
Він запхав соломинку в мурашник.
ruОн воткнул соломинку в муравейник.
deEr steckte einen Strohhalm in einen Ameisenhaufen.
The centipede climbed the towering anthill.
Ants store their food in the anthills.
When I was a child, I enjoyed destroying anthills.
ruВ детстве мне нравилось разрушать муравейники.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English ametehul, amptehille, from Old English ǣmethyll, equivalent to ant + hFrom Middle English ametehul, amptehille, from Old English ǣmethyll, equivalent to ant + hill.
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