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Read through this list of archaic words and pick a few to insert into your own lexicon. 1. Abaft —toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft. 2. Abroad —out of doors. 3. Accouchement —birthing. 4. Advertisement —a notice to readers in a book.
coster comes from Costard, a type of cooking apple, monger means trader or seller. a greengrocer, seller of fruit and vegetables. fishmonger, ironmonger and warmonger are among the surviving words ending in -monger. cove. unknown. a fellow or chap. Used in 1860s.
3 meanings: 1. British → an archaic or dialect word for ant 2. Cornwall dialect a tourist or holiday-maker Robert. 1778–1803,.... Click for more definitions.
Food Web. Ants are a very important part of the food web. They eat plants, seeds, and decaying plant and animal material. Many species of ants prey on other insects. Some ants eat insect pests, such as termites. Some ants eat honeydew, the sweet substance produced by aphids. They will even guard the aphids against predators like ladybugs.
Food Web and Food Chain. Few insects prey on fire ants, so they are not an important part of the food web. Although dragonflies may eat a few winged fire ants as they leave their mounds and armadillos may eat a few of the developing brood inside of the mound, the ants themselves are not an important food for other animals.
Jun 25, 2019 · The ant farming of flowering plants, however, started more recently, about 3 million years ago in the Fiji Islands. Research, led by Dr Guillaume Chomicki from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, has demonstrated that millions of years of ant agriculture has remodelled plant physiology.
It's a portmanteau of two words: pyss, meaning "urine" (and, yes, the forebear of modern piss ), and mire, ironically also meaning "ant". So an old word for "ant" comes from "piss ant", making the pyss part completely useless. The connection to urine was apparently because of the pee-like smell of anthills. Now, mire comes from Old Norse maurr ...
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