ant
ant (ant)
noun
any of a widespread family (Formicidae) of black, brown, or red hymenopteran insects, generally wingless, that live in colonies with a complex division of labor by castes, including workers, males, and a queen
Etymology: ME ante, amete < OE æmet(t)e: akin to OHG âmeiza < â-, off + meizen, Goth maitan, OE *mætan, to cut; hence, lit., “the cutter off”
ant
- antenna
- antonym
Ant
- Antarctica
- antonym
ant
n.
Types of ants include: worker, neuter, replete, queen, male.
Antlike insects include: termite, white ant, army ant, legionary ant, fire ant, Texas red ant, black ant, visiting ant, agricultural ant, slave-making ant, slave ant, soldier ant, carpenter ant, mining ant, European ant, pharaoh ant, velvet ant.
Converse of object
- forage: Each foraging ant brings back about one and a half times its own weight in food each day.
- swarm: I walked in about 20 feet and there they were in their favored halls of swarming army ants.
- fly: A sex crazed flying ant with a clown's face!
Converse of subject
- inhabit: The hollow stems have been found to be inhabited by ants ( Wheeler 1942 ).
Adjective modifier
- stinging: If you put your hand down it will be covered with stinging ants or leeches.
- Argentine: There was one statement which I noticed about Argentine ants getting into bedding.
- Red: I don't want to swing off-topic onto Red Ant.
Modifies a noun
- swarm: Another individual was probably seen very briefly near an ant swarm on the Cacao trial on 22 May.
- colony: An ant colony is able to adjust its task allocation to external perturbation.
- Formica: Very little information has been published about the black ant Formica lemani.
- nest: My Dad always poured boiling water on ants nests to get rid of them.
- hill: Q: What's the Pink Panther say when he steps on an ant hill?
Noun used with modifier
- leaf-cutter: Must go and do a night time survey of out leaf-cutter ants!
- leaf-cutting: Worker caste polymorphism has a genetic basis in a leaf-cutting ant.
- leafcutter: Harpy and Crested Eagles hunt here and we'll see colonies of leafcutter ants and myriad butterflies.
- Pharaoh: This method is particularly useful for the control of cockroaches and Pharaohs ants, where the bait is also taken back to the nest.
- carpenter: Swarming is not the only means for carpenter ants to produce new nests.
- queen: Queen ants should not be used in Ant world - just workers!
Possessives
- nest: Please don't allow the children to disturb the wood ant's nest in any way.
Possessives
- Pharaoh: Its effect on Pharaoh's ants is to make the queen lay sterile eggs.
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Those who have handled scienceshave been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use; thereasonersresemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance.But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy.
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