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SLAVE ANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("slave ant" is a kind of...):
ant; emmet; pismire (social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slave ant"):
Formica fusca (an ant frequently enslaved)
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