anting
About 0.05 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The practice of some birds of rubbing live ants or occasionally other items into the feathers, possibly as a means of controlling parasites.
Similar words
emmet pismire counteractive anti antbird imping dusting nebbing ant-tanager ptiloerection
Often followed by
gate to and the is in anting with from
Word family
antings
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