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AMAZON ANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small reddish slave-making ant species
Synonyms:
Amazon ant; Polyergus rufescens
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Amazon ant" is a kind of...):
slave-maker; slave-making ant (an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants)
Holonyms ("Amazon ant" is a member of...):
genus Polyergus; Polyergus (Amazon ants)