slave ant

English

Noun

slave ant (plural slave ants)

  1. Any of various species of ants which are captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for slave ant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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