SLAVE-MAKING ANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slave-making ant mean? 

• SLAVE-MAKING ANT (noun)
  The noun SLAVE-MAKING ANT has 1 sense:

1. an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants

  Familiarity information: SLAVE-MAKING ANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAVE-MAKING ANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

slave-maker; slave-making ant

Hypernyms ("slave-making ant" is a kind of...):

ant; emmet; pismire (social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slave-making ant"):

Formica sanguinea; sanguinary ant (slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere)

Amazon ant; Polyergus rufescens (small reddish slave-making ant species)