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Noun Concept
Categories: Symbiosis, Building defects, Articles with 'species' microformats, Lopingian first appearances, Superorganisms
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termite  white ant  Subterranean Termite  drywood termite  drywood termites
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Whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood WordNet 3.0
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Whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Termites are a group of detritophagous eusocial insects which consume a wide variety of decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, and soil humus. Wikipedia
A soft-bodied insect of the order Isoptera; individuals feed on cellulose and live in colonies with a caste system comprising three types of functional individuals: sterile workers and soldiers, and the reproductives. OmegaWiki
A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea. Wiktionary