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Slave Ant

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Noun

1. slave ant

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Slave Ant

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noun

any of various ants, esp Formica fusca, captured and forced to do the work of a colony of ants of another species (slave-making ants)

See also amazon ant

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Slave Ant

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any ant enslaved by a slave-making ant

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

Slave Ant

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n.

An ant captured and raised as a worker by slave-making ants.

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