AMAZON ANT


Meaning of AMAZON ANT in English

noun

Usage: usually capitalized 1st A

Etymology: so called from the legend that the Amazons captured children from other tribes and reared them as their own

: an ant of a genus ( Polyergus ) of slave-making ants of Europe and America which carry away and rear in their own nests the larvae and nymphs of other species

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