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‖ formica1|fɔːˈmaɪkə|
[L. formīca ant.]
1. Ent. The typical genus of the family Formicidæ; the ant.
1865Livingstone Zambesi ix. 190 We could not [sleep] because of the attacks by the fighting battalions of a small species of formica. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 272 Many Hymenoptera, Formica, Cynips, also possess it.
2. A kind of abscess, ulcer, or excrescence, occurring esp. in a hawk's bill or a dog's ears.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 213 Pustule þat comeþ of humours corrupt as ignis persicus & miliaris & fformica schall be purged. 1543Traheron tr. Vigo's Chirurg. ii. vi. 20 b, Formica is a lytle pustle, or many pustles that come upon the skynne..The thyrde [sygne] is pryckynge, and it is a sodayn bytyng as it were of an ante wherof it hath hys name. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. (1623) 161 The Formicas in Hawkes is a hard horne growing vpon the beake of a Hawke. 1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. ii. (1677) 248 Of the Formica. This is a Distemper which commonly seizeth on the Horn of Hawks Beaks, which will eat the Beak away. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 225 Formica or Scab in the Ears [of a dog]. |