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Definition of Carpenter ant
1. Noun. Ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs.
Definition of Carpenter ant
1. Noun. any of several large ants, of the genus ''Camponatus'', found in North America and northern China, that build nests in dead wood ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpenter Ant
Literary usage of Carpenter ant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"It is the earnest hope of the writer that some student will take up, for example,
the large carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus, study it most ..."
2. Insects Injurious to the Household and Annoying to Man by Glenn Washington Herrick (1914)
"The large black carpenter ant. — The large black carpenter ant (Camponotus ...
The natural haunts of the black carpenter ant (Fig. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1884)
"How a carpenter ant Queen founds a Formicary.—-Rev. ... three specimens of fertile
queens of the Pennsylvania carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus. ..."
4. A Manual on the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"On many occasions we have found a queen of the carpenter-ant in a small cleared
space beneath the bark of a dead tree or log ..."
5. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"Look under the loose bark of trees for nests of the big, black carpenter ant.
You may find in such situations a queen ant starting a ..."
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