an ant with a musky smell.

(a) a spider-ant (Cent. Dict. 1891); (b) a parasitic wasp of the family Mutillidæ, having a velvety appearance.

transferred. Used as a name for various animals, fishes, etc. A fighting ant or termite; also Australian, a species of large red ant.

A kind of predatory ant which is said to have been introduced into Jamaica to control pests in sugar cane plantations, and later to have become a…

A species of red ant, of which the neuters capture and enslave the young of other species; sometimes applied to the neuters alone.

a green-bodied arboreal weaver ant, Oecophylla smaragdina, of Asia and northern Australia, which makes nests by stitching leaves together and has…

Used in naming varieties or species of animals, plants, minerals, etc., as brown ant, brown bear, brown owl; brown willow; brown haematite, etc.

That reaps or gathers in and stores up grain, etc. harvesting ant, a kind of ant which gathers and stores up the seeds of grasses; harvesting mouse =…

= Amazon-ant, n.

(see quot.).

any of several ants that exhibit very fast or erratic movement, esp. Prenolepsis longicornis, native to tropical regions.