Associations to the word «Cryptotermes»

Dictionary definition

CRYPTOTERMES, noun. Genus of dry wood termites; cosmopolitan in distribution; sometimes considered a subgenus of Kalotermes.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats