How to pronounce“termite”in English
adjour extended phenotype. As Dawkins says, technology is our second skin. We're not the only species that does so. You know, the termites build these enormous
termite colonies which are temperature controlled. I mean, our cities, like the termite colony, are really who we are. You know, if you're able to like make
that cognitive shift and trans transcend what Andy Clark calls the skin bag bias and realize that we don't end where our skin tissue ends, but that we are
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Definitions of “termite”
A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.
“Linnæus describes this insect under the Latin name of Termes; and citizen Cuvier speaks of it under that of Termites. The vulgar call it by that of white ant, or fourmi vaguevague. The termites divide themselves into societies: each society builds itself a next, and each nest belongs to an innumerable quantity of these insects, who acknowledge for their chiefs a king and a queen.”
A contemptible person.
“This two faced termite has the nerve to talk.”
Of a chimpanzee: to catch termites by inserting a stick or vine into their nest and waiting for them to climb up it.
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