the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > distended with food (2)
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A honeypot ant (Myrmecocystus and other genera) whose abdomen has become greatly distended with stored honeydew and nectar. Chiefly in plural.