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Driver ant   /drˈaɪvər ænt/   Listen
Driver ant

noun
1.
Tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects.  Synonyms: army ant, legionary ant.






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"Driver ant" Quotes from Famous Books



... in important points of structure between the different castes of neuters in the same species, that I gladly availed myself of Mr. F. Smith's offer of numerous specimens from the same nest of the driver ant (Anomma) of West Africa. The reader will perhaps best appreciate the amount of difference in these {241} workers, by my giving not the actual measurements, but a strictly accurate illustration: the difference ...
— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Driver ant" :   pismire, Dorylinae, emmet, army ant, legionary ant, subfamily Dorylinae, ant



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