单词 | ant plant |
释义 | > as lemmasant plant ant plant n. any of various plants adapted by means of specialized structures to give shelter to ants and in some cases to provide them with food; a myrmecophyte.The ants are advantageous to such plants in aiding pollination and seed dispersal, providing nutrients, and defending them from herbivorous animals. [Originally after Italian mirmecofili myrmecophile n.] ΚΠ 1886 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 6 i. 471 ‘Ant-plants’ of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago and New Guinea. 1942 Sci. Monthly Dec. 538/1 Cherry laurel is one of the ‘ant-plants’, and the Argentine ant fondly feeds on the secretions from the nectaries on the leaves. 2019 Blade (Toledo, Ohio) (Nexis) 21 May Ant plants..grow bulbous stems filled with chambers specifically to house ants. < as lemmas |
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