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TURF ANT

Definition: TURF ANT

TURF ANT

1. (Zo["o]l.), a small European ant (Formica flava) which makes small ant-hills on heaths and commons.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: TURF ANT

Language Translations for "TURF ANT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

gul engmyre (mound ant, yellow turf ant). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gele weidemier (mound ant, yellow turf ant). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

keltiƤinen (mound ant, yellow turf ant). (various references)

   

German

  

gelbe Wiesenameise (mound ant, yellow turf ant). (various references)

   

Italian

  

formica gialla dei prati (mound ant, yellow turf ant). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urftay antay

   

Swedish

  

gul tuvmyra (mound ant, yellow turf ant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TURF ANT

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Lasius flavus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TURF ANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-n-r-t-t-u"

-1 letter: truant.

-2 letters: furan, taunt.

-3 letters: aunt, fart, faun, frat, raft, rant, runt, tarn, tart, taut, tufa, tuft, tuna, turf, turn.

-4 letters: aft, ant, arf, art, att, fan, far, fat, fun, fur, nut, ran, rat, run, rut, tan, tar, tat, tau, tun, tut, urn, uta.

-5 letters: an, ar, at, fa, na, nu, ta, un, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-n-r-t-t-u"
 

+2 letters: fortunate.

 

+3 letters: refutation, surfactant.

 

+4 letters: fortunately, frustrating, frustration, refutations, surfactants, unfortunate.

 

+5 letters: autografting, cosurfactant, frustrations, futilitarian, interfaculty, putrefaction, titaniferous, trifurcating, trifurcation, unflattering, unfortunates, unstratified.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Translations: Ancient
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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