Terms vs Inchman - What's the difference?
terms | inchman |
(Australia, chiefly, Tasmania) Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia , mainly endemic to Australia.
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As nouns the difference between terms and inchman
is that terms is while inchman is (australia|chiefly|tasmania) any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus myrmecia , mainly endemic to australia.inchman
English
(Myrmecia)Noun
(inchmen)page 46,
- We sit under the eaves to eat, or on stumps in the grass (there are “inchmen ” about, giant lumbering bull ants).
page 203,
- They would walk many miles along Ocean Beach and they would eat the fleshy leaves of the plant they called pigface and she called dead men's fingers, would rub the bite of jack-jumpers and the inchmen with the pulpy flesh.
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- Outside in the yard we had fierce orange bull ants whose bite was like a red-hot needle; and, for a season, two nests of the dreaded inchmen .