anthill

[ ant-hil ]

/ ˈæntˌhɪl /

a mound of earth, leaves, etc., formed by a colony of ants in digging or constructing their underground nest.

Origin of anthill

1250–1300; Middle English amete hulle, ampte hille; see ant, hill

True or false, the story results in every anthill being carefully searched.

I Married a Ranger |Dama Margaret Smith
I threw myself flat on my face, seeking the anthill as cover, prepared to sell my life dearly should they prove to be Englishmen.

My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War |Ben Viljoen.
Don Pedro had issued such a command as this, with as much indifference as he would have placed his foot upon an anthill.

Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi |John S. C. Abbott
Farther away the partridges stole quietly to an anthill at the edge of some barley.

Hodge and His Masters |Richard Jefferies

This place is just like an enormous anthill—you know an anthill is nothing but a nursery.

Herland |Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman