English > ant: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers. |
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| Synonyms | emmet, pismire |
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| Member of | Formicidae, family Formicidae | ants |
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| Narrower | army ant, driver ant, legionary ant | Tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects |
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| bulldog ant | Any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia |
| carpenter ant | ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs |
| fire ant | omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting |
| little black ant, Monomorium minimum | tiny glossy black ant |
| pharaoh ant, pharaoh's ant, Monomorium pharaonis | small red ant of warm regions |
| slave-making ant, slave-maker | An ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants |
| slave ant | Any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species |
| wood ant, Formica rufa | reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands |
| Broader | hymenopterous insect, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopter | insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing |
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| Spanish | formicidae, hormiga |
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| Catalan | Emmet, formiga |
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| Adjectives | formic | of or relating to or derived from ants |
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