SLAVE ANT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("slave ant" is a kind of...):

ant; emmet; pismire (social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slave ant"):

Formica fusca (an ant frequently enslaved)

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