pəˈnirə noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek ponēra, feminine of ponēros wretched, wicked, good-for-nothing, from ponos toil, trouble, from penesthai to toil, be in need
: a cosmopolitan genus of stinging ants having an elongate abdomen supported on a petiole of one segment but with a constriction between the first and second abdominal segments