A reproductive female inquiline gains access to a host nest and usually kills the resident queen.

She was bigger than any exaggeration of most feet, more than a million, gazillion, googolduplex, […] more than much, much more than all fathoms, feet, miles, or anything anything.

To screen out the houses, Mr. Darke and Ms. Zoehrer have planted cedars and katsura trees, sweetshrub and shadbush, and turned their gaze inward, to the garden of their own making.

Her dress belled out at the bottom.