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anthill
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anthill [′ant‚hil]
(invertebrate zoology)
A mound of earth deposited around the entrance to ant and termite nests in the ground.
(mining engineering)
The cuttings around the hole collar in blasthole drilling.


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In the exhibit's section devoted to the Carnaval in Laza, Spain, a video shows the strange custom of participants whipping spectators and throwing dirt from anthills at them.
And a seemingly never-ending procession of leafcutter ants tack diagonally across the next spot in the trail on a pheromone-driven mission to and from their monolithic anthills.
Achebe, the most famous African writer (Things Fall Apart, of Anchor Books, 1959, 1994, ISBN 0-385-47454-7; Anthills of the Savannah, Anchor Books, 1987, 1988, ISBN 0-385-26045-8), is largely unknown in the villages.
 
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