AMAZON ANT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small reddish slave-making ant species

Synonyms:

Amazon ant; Polyergus rufescens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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