SANGUINARY ANT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere

Synonyms:

Formica sanguinea; sanguinary ant

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sanguinary 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 ("sanguinary ant" is a member of...):

Formica; genus Formica (type genus of the Formicidae)

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