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Noun Concept
Categories: Household pest insects, Articles with 'species' microformats, Symbiosis, Building defects, Insects in culture
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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
Insect. Wikipedia Disambiguation
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
IS A
insect
taxonomic group
PART OF
Isoptera
HAS KIND
dry-wood termite
Mastotermes darwiniensis
Mastotermes electrodominicus
Mastotermes electromexicus
Reticulitermes flanipes
+5 relations
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
DIFFERENT FROM
thermite
PARENT TAXON
Blattodea
TAXON RANK
suborder
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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termite, white ant
Wikipedia
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termite
Wikidata
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termite
Wiktionary
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termite
OmegaWiki
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termite, white ant
Wikipedia Redirections
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drywood termite, drywood termites, Isoptera-Behavior and Ecology, Nasutitermes graveolus, Neoisoptera, Queen termite, Structural termite, Subterranean Termite, Subterranean termite, subterranean termites, termitaria, Termitaries, termitarium, termitary, Termite eating habits, Termite Hindgut Microbiology, termite nest, Termite pest, Termite post-treatment, Termite pre-treatment, termites, Termitoidae, Termitoidea, white ant, white ants
Wikidata Alias
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Isoptera, Termite, termites

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