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Pismire

noun

Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers. Synonyms: ant, emmet.

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... finished our unsuccessful cruise. We bore up for the Florida Stream, ran through the Turks' Island passage, made St. Domingo and Cuba, passed over the Pismire shoal of the N.E. end of Jamaica, and anchored at Port Royal. The morning following we received letters from England. I must here relate an incident which was most feelingly trying to one of the youngsters. He had, among ...

— A Sailor of King George • Frederick Hoffman

... were synonymous terms, and the little, mean, pismire ambitions of Roman politicians he despised, striding over their corrupt schemes for pelf and office like a ...

— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce

... not call one greater and one smaller, That which fills its period and place is equal to any. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a 'chef-d'oeuvre' for the highest; And the running blackberry would adorn the parlours of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn ...

— The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue • G. Lowes Dickinson

Words linked to "Pismire" : legionary ant, army ant, ant, hymenopter, slave-maker, wood ant, Monomorium pharaonis, Formica rufa, slave ant, fire ant, little black ant, hymenopteran, family Formicidae, hymenopterous insect, emmet, carpenter ant, pharaoh ant, pharaoh's ant, Formicidae, bulldog ant, hymenopteron, driver ant, Monomorium minimum, slave-making ant