"So, the famous drug was made from something called formicary foam. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
Not since the discovery of formicary foam, which could be reduced to produce exene. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
Several queens often exist in one nest, and I have seen workers drag newly fertilized queens into a formicary to enlarge their resources. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
They very soon commenced work, tunnelling the earth and erecting a formicary, as nearly as they could after the pattern of their home on the barrens. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
The whole life of the formicary centers upon the young, which proves they have reached a degree of civilization unknown even in some forms of higher life. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
I have to say I adore that word “formicary” here – though I think there are critics now who would protests at such a self-consciously literary word. From Wordnik.com. [Postcard from nowhere: airports and assumptions : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
From current projections it looks like it is going to be us and a fungus and some air pollinated green silage feedstock by 2250, welcome to the formicary!. From Wordnik.com. [Biodiversity: Boundless, priceless – and threatened | Editorial] Reference
An action that obeyed, was directed by, the incredibly gigantic, communistic will which, like the spirit of the hive, the soul of the formicary, animated every unit of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
She is fed and cared for by the workers, and she in turn assists them in the rearing of the young, and has even been known to give her strength for the extension of the formicary grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
Angeline Cheng, formicary Ltd, +44 (0) 20 7920 7106, angeline (dot) cheng (at) formicary (dot) net. From Wordnik.com. [PRWeb - Daily News Feed] Reference
A favourite set target is the bulbous formicary of the white ant which disfigures so many of the trees of the forest. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
As frivolously as i apartments in dubai the current, it subjoining anticlinal to get quarterly to the carboy and sonority my own formicary. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
He can spend a happy day in watching the busy affairs of a formicary, and to observe the progress of a bit of spider-web architecture gives him a peculiar joy. From Wordnik.com. [Days Off And Other Digressions] Reference
But there are other animals in the teeming formicary which seem to subserve no useful purpose other than that of ministering to the ants 'love of pets or playmates. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
If they happen to get on the hands or fingers, they submit to be restored to the gate; but go to the formicary on the mango-tree half a dozen yards away and offer a friendly finger, and you will find dozens of pugnacious individuals ready to defend their home. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
The clavigers are not the only pets in a formicary; several other species of beetles and one bug also live in ants 'nests, and seem to occupy places in the affection of the masters of the home akin to those which dogs, cats, and other pets occupy in our own affections. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
These industrious little creatures abound in India: they are so small that it takes eight or ten of them to carry a single grain of wheat or barley; and yet they will patiently drag along their big burden for five hundred or a thousand yards to the door of their formicary. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
Seychelles Town brought in a large batch of formicary foam. ". From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
(” Does anyone really say ‘formicary’” I hear the predictable cry.). From Wordnik.com. [Postcard from nowhere: airports and assumptions : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
"Mataroreva did not interrupt to announce their arrival, so they were compelled to listen in on the conversation, which had something to do with formicary foam. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
Old formicary?. From Wordnik.com. [Postcard from nowhere: airports and assumptions : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
They removed his formicary appendix. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1] Reference
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