"duck ant" meaning in English

See duck ant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: duck ants [plural]
Etymology: Its shape is supposed to resemble that of a duck. Head templates: {{en-noun}} duck ant (plural duck ants)
  1. A white termite of Jamaica, of species Nasutitermes nigriceps, which builds large nests in trees.
    Sense id: en-duck_ant-en-noun-f0tvfnb6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Termites

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Its shape is supposed to resemble that of a duck.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "duck ants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "duck ant (plural duck ants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Termites",
          "orig": "en:Termites",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A white termite of Jamaica, of species Nasutitermes nigriceps, which builds large nests in trees."
      ],
      "id": "en-duck_ant-en-noun-f0tvfnb6",
      "links": [
        [
          "termite",
          "termite"
        ],
        [
          "Jamaica",
          "Jamaica"
        ],
        [
          "nest",
          "nest"
        ],
        [
          "tree",
          "tree"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "duck ant"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Its shape is supposed to resemble that of a duck.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "duck ants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "duck ant (plural duck ants)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Termites"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A white termite of Jamaica, of species Nasutitermes nigriceps, which builds large nests in trees."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "termite",
          "termite"
        ],
        [
          "Jamaica",
          "Jamaica"
        ],
        [
          "nest",
          "nest"
        ],
        [
          "tree",
          "tree"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "duck ant"
}

Download raw JSONL data for duck ant meaning in English (0.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.