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Slave-making Ant

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Noun

1. 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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Slave-making Ant

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an ant of any of several species that enslave ants of other species, as by raiding their nests to carry off pupae that are kept until they become useful as workers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Slave-making Ant

see synonyms of slave-making ant
n.
Any of various species of ant, such as Polyergus breviceps, that raid the nests of other ants and carry off the pupae in order to provide workers for their own colony.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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