Meaning & use
formicary
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An anthill or nest built and inhabited by a colony of ants.
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The children poked a stick into the formicary and watched ants scurry out.
Researchers excavated a large formicary to study its tunnel structure.
A note on using this word
From Latin "formica" (ant), the term is used mainly in entomology and natural history writing.
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anthill
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