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AMAZON ANT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Amazon ant mean?

• AMAZON ANT (noun)
The noun AMAZON ANT has 1 sense:

1. small reddish slave-making ant species

Familiarity information: AMAZON ANT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AMAZON ANT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Small reddish slave-making ant species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Amazon ant; Polyergus rufescens

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 slaves)

Holonyms ("Amazon ant" is a member of...):

genus Polyergus; Polyergus (Amazon ants)

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