Any of various small insects constituting the family Formicidae of the order Hymenoptera, which typically live in complex social colonies, are…
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| 释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > 			[noun]		 > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant (117)		 anteOE Any of various small insects constituting the family Formicidae of the order Hymenoptera, which typically live in complex social colonies, are… emmeteOE = ant, n.1 1. Frequently poetic or archaic. mirea1300 An ant. Cf. maur, n., pismire, n. maur1366 An ant. pismirec1395 An ant. formice1484 The ant. merpyss1527 = compounds 1. calicrat?1590 An ant. pissant1649 An ant. Also figurative. Chiefly U.S. regional in later use. formica1865 Entomology. The typical genus of the family Formicidæ; the ant. muryan1865 An ant. Also (in Cornish mythology): a type of fairy (see quot. 2002). macraner1907 A particularly large male ant. Subcategories:— 			collective			(1)		 — 			unspecified types			(11)		 — 			little			(1)		 — 			winged			(1)		 — 			distended with food			(2)		 — 			red ant			(1)		 — 			army ant			(2)		 — 			soldier or fighting ants			(3)		 — 			worker			(4)		 — 			queen			(2)		 — 			venomous ant			(1)		 — 			that live in or frequent trees			(3)		 — 			leaf-cutting or carrying ant			(3)		 — 			that form ant-hills			(14)		 — 			weaver ant			(1)		 — 			honey-ant			(4)		 — 			slave ant			(2)		 — 			ant using others as slaves			(1)		 — 			young ant			(1)		 — 			ant eggs			(1)		 — 			larva(e)			(4)		 — 			ant nature			(1)		 — 			title for ant			(1)		 — 			form of symbiosis			(1)		 — 			pogonomyrmex barbatus (agricultural ant)			(1)		 — 			family Formicidae or genus Formica			(10)		 — 			oecodoma cephalotes or parasol ant			(2)		 — 			member of genus Dorylus			(5)		 — 			member of genus Eciton (forager)			(2)		 — 			member of genus Irydomyrmex			(5)		 — 			monomorium pharaonis (Pharaoh's ant)			(2)		 — 			member of genus Megaponera (Matabele ant)			(1)		 — 			member of genus Solenopsis (thief-ant)			(2)		 — 			member of genus Polyergus			(1)		 — 			member of genus Myrmecia (bull-ant)			(3)		 — 			member of genus Ectatomma (greenhead)			(2)		 — 			member of genus Lasias			(2)		 — 			member of genus Messor			(1)		 | 
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