ant
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1. social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers (noun.animal)
| hyponym | : | carpenter ant, |
| definition | : | ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | fire ant, |
| definition | : | omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | formica rufa, wood ant, |
| definition | : | reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | slave ant, |
| definition | : | any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | slave-maker, slave-making ant, |
| definition | : | an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bulldog ant, |
| definition | : | any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia (noun.animal) |
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