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SANGUINARY ANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sanguinary ant mean?
• SANGUINARY ANT (noun)
The noun SANGUINARY ANT has 1 sense:
1. slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere
Familiarity information: SANGUINARY ANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Formica sanguinea; sanguinary ant
Hypernyms ("sanguinary ant" is a kind of...):
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)
Holonyms ("sanguinary ant" is a member of...):
Formica; genus Formica (type genus of the Formicidae)
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