pismire

pis·mire

P0330100 (pĭs′mīr′, pĭz′-)n. Archaic An ant.

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[Middle English pissemyre : pisse, urine (from the smell of the formic acid that ants secrete); see piss + mire, ant (probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish myre).]

pismire

(ˈpɪsˌmaɪə) n (Animals) an archaic or dialect word for an ant[C14 (literally: urinating ant, from the odour of formic acid characteristic of an ant hill): from piss + obsolete mire ant, of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse maurr, Middle Low German mīre ant]

pis•mire

(ˈpɪsˌmaɪ^ər, ˈpɪz-)

n. an ant. [1350–1400; Middle English pissemyre=pisse(n) to urinate + myre ant, perhaps < Scandinavian (compare Dan myre, Swedish myra), c. Dutch mier; from stench of formic acid proper to ants]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

pismire - social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workersant, emmethymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect - insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercingfamily Formicidae, Formicidae - antsMonomorium pharaonis, pharaoh ant, pharaoh's ant - small red ant of warm regions; a common household pestlittle black ant, Monomorium minimum - tiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for foodarmy ant, driver ant, legionary ant - tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insectscarpenter ant - ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggsfire ant - omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful stingFormica rufa, wood ant - reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlandsslave ant - any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another speciesslave-maker, slave-making ant - an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave antsbulldog ant - any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia

Translations

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