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Ant Lion

Definitions: Ant Lion

Ant Lion

Noun

1. The larva of an ant lion or of any of several other insects.

2. Winged insect resembling a dragonfly; the larvae (doodlebugs) dig conical pits where they wait to catch e.g. ants.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Ant Lion

Synonyms: antlion (n), antlion fly (n), doodlebug (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ant Lion

English words defined with "ant lion": antliondoodlebug. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Ant Lion

Illustrations:
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ant Lion

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ant lion

63

ant lion picture

3
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Modern Translations: Ant Lion

Language Translations for "ant lion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

мраволъв. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ארי מל. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hangyalesõ. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

蟻地獄 (doodlebug). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ありじ"く (doodlebug). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

antay ionlay

   

Portuguese

  

formiga-leão. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hormiga león (common ant-lion, doodle bug). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

мурашиний лев. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ant Lion

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Myrmeleo formicarius. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Ant Lion

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: antlion.

Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-n-o-t"

-1 letter: anoint, latino, nation, talion.

-2 letters: aloin, anion, niton, notal, talon, tolan, tonal.

-3 letters: alit, alto, anil, anon, anti, into, iota, lain, lati, linn, lino, lint, lion, loan, loin, lota, loti, nail, naoi, noil, nona, nota, tail, tain, tali, toil, tola.

-4 letters: ail, ain, ait, alt, ani, ant, inn, ion, lat, lin, lit, lot, nan.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-n-o-t"
 

+1 letter: antlions, lunation, mannitol, national, nontidal, notional.

 

+2 letters: allantoin, anthelion, antinodal, antinovel, clintonia, continual, inflation, inoculant, lineation, lunations, mannitols, melatonin, nationals, noncoital, planation, plutonian, santolina, tensional.

 

+3 letters: alienation, allantoins, angulation, annulation, anthelions, antilepton, antimonial, antinovels, antiphonal, binational, calcitonin, clintonias, conflating, conflation, congenital, dominantly, elongating, elongation, functional, ignorantly, inflations, inhalation, inoculants, insolating, insolation, insulation, internodal, interzonal, intolerant, intrazonal, junctional, lamination, langostino, lineations, melatonins, nationally, negational, nodulation, nominalist, noncapital, nonelastic, nonethical, nongenital, noninitial, nonliteral, nonmarital, nonoptimal, nonplastic, nonspatial, nontrivial, nontypical, notational, notionally, nucleation, nutational, planations, planktonic, plantation, platooning, poignantly, santolinas, toenailing, undulation.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ant Lion


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6E 74      4C 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01001100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#110 &#116 &#32 &#76 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006E 0074      004C 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

358086246758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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