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Amazon ant

Variant of Amazon

noun

  1. Gr. Myth. any of a race of female warriors supposed to have lived in Scythia, near the Black Sea
  2. a tall, strong, aggressive woman
  3. a small, greenish parrot (genus Amazona) of Central and South America, often kept as a pet
  4. any of a genus (Polyergus) of ants that makes slaves of other ants

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