Usually means: Wood-destroying large ant species.
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  1. carpenter ant: Merriam-Webster
  2. carpenter ant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carpenter ant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carpenter ant: Vocabulary.com
  5. carpenter ant: Wordnik
  6. carpenter ant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. carpenter ant: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Carpenter ant, carpenter ant: Dictionary.com
  9. Carpenter ant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. carpenter ant: Rhymezone
  11. carpenter ant: FreeDictionary.org
  12. carpenter ant: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  14. carpenter ant: Wiktionary

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  1. carpenter ant: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carpenter ant)

▸ noun:  Any of several large ants, of the genus Camponotus, found in North America and northern China, that build nests in dead wood.

Similar:
carpenter bee, carpenter, Hercules ant, carpintero, camponotine, wood ant, ceratinine, duck ant, jet ant, white ant, more...

Opposite:
termite, woodworm, woodlouse

Phrases:
Black carpenter ant, more...

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Similar:
carpenter bee, carpenter, Hercules ant, carpintero, camponotine, wood ant, ceratinine, duck ant, jet ant, white ant, more...

Opposite:
termite, woodworm, woodlouse

Phrases:
Black carpenter ant, more...



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