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anthill

anthill

See also: ant-hill

English

An anthill

Noun

anthill ‎(plural anthills)

A cone-shaped formation constructed from sediment and other available materials by ants or termites. The colony nests underneath this cone.

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Translations

home of ants and termites

Aromanian: furnicar n, furnicami f
Asturian: formigueru m
Bashkir: иләү ‎(iläw)
Basque: inurritegi (eu)
Belarusian: мура́шнік m ‎(murášnik)
Bulgarian: мравуняк (bg) m ‎(mravunjak)
Catalan: formiguer m (ants), termiter m (termites)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蟻丘 (zh), 蚁丘 (zh) ‎(yǐqiū)
Classical Nahuatl: āzcapōtzalli, āzcaxālli
Czech: mraveniště (cs) n
Estonian: sipelgapesa (et), termiidipesa
Finnish: muurahaiskeko (fi)
French: fourmilière (fr) f (ants), termitière (fr) f (termites)
Friulian: furmiâr m
Galician: formigueiro (gl) m
German: Ameisenhaufen (de) m, Ameisenhügel m
Greek: μυρμηγκοφωλιά (el) f ‎(myrminkofoliá)
Hungarian: hangyaboly (hu)
Icelandic: mauraþúfa (is) f
Interlingua: formicario
Italian: formicaio (it) m
Japanese: 蟻塚 ‎(ありづか, arizuka)
Norman: freunmionniéthe f

Latin: formicarium n, formicarum agmen n
Macedonian: мравјалник m ‎(mrávjalnik)
Malay: busut
Maltese: bejta tan-nemel
Nahuatl: azcapotzalli (nah), azcaxalli
Navajo: wááláchíí bighan
Old English: ǣmethyll m
Persian: آشیان مور ‎(âšiyan-e mur)
Polish: mrowisko (pl) n
Portuguese: formigueiro m (ants), cupinzeiro m (termites)
Romanian: furnicar (ro) n, mușuroi (ro) n
Russian: мураве́йник (ru) m ‎(muravéjnik)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: мравињак m

Roman: mravinjak (sh) m
Slovene: mravljišče (sl) n
Spanish: hormiguero (es) m
Swahili: kishugu (sw)
Swedish: myrstack c
Tagalog: punso, bahay-langgam
Turkish: karınca yuvası (tr)
Ukrainian: мура́шник m ‎(murášnyk)