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SLAVE-MAKING ANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
Synonyms:
slave-maker; slave-making ant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("slave-making 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-making ant"):
Formica sanguinea; sanguinary ant (slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere)
Amazon ant; Polyergus rufescens (small reddish slave-making ant species)
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