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white ant

1

noun



white-ant

2

[ hwahyt-ant, wahyt- ]

verb (used with object)

, Australian Informal.
  1. to undermine or subvert from within.

white ant

noun

  1. another name for termite
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of white ant1

First recorded in 1675–85

Origin of white ant2

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

"A white ant," he returned, taking the little hand between his own great strong ones.

In this the animals were surrounded and forced to pass before a white-ant hill on which Burt was posted with the camera.

On account of the devastations which they occasion, Linnus has called the white ant the greatest plague of the Indies.

It suffices to be remembered that the mother-bee does not produce in a year what the female white ant can produce in a day.

There was greater appearance of intelligence in the termites, or white ant, than in these poor half-starved wretches.

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