| 单词 | agricultural ant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasagricultural ant agricultural ant n. U.S. an ant that harvests grass seed or cultivates fungi; spec. the red harvester ant of Texas, Pogonomyrmex barbatus, which clears all vegetation from the vicinity of the nest apart from prairie three-awn grass (ant rice). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > pogonomyrmex barbatus (agricultural ant) agricultural ant1860 1860 G. Lincecum Let. 29 Dec. in C. Darwin Corr. (1993) VIII. 543 The agricultural ants—but no other species of ant—are locating their cities along the turn rows in the fields. 1905 S. A. Forbes 23rd Rep. State Entomologist Noxious & Beneficial Insects Illinois 159 The curious agricultural ant of Texas bares the ground about its nest by cutting down and removing all vegetation. 2007 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 Oct. r8 I always thought these fungus-growing ants, the agricultural ants, were the coolest organisms I'd ever heard of. < as lemmas |
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