| 单词 | honeypot ant |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoneypot ant 5. More fully honeypot ant. Any of several ants of Myrmecocystus and other genera, found in North America, Australia, and South Africa, having some specialist workers with abdomens that become greatly distended with surplus (typically sugar-rich) food which is regurgitated when needed by other ants in the colony. Also: the individual worker ants which store food in this manner; also called replete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > honey-ant honey ant1854 honeypot1880 1880 Jrnl. Linn. Soc.: Zool. 15 185 Certain individuals in each nest serve as animated honey-pots. 1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. xxxviii. 253 The honey-pot stores the honey in its abdomen. 1968 P. P. Larson & M. W. Larson Lives of Social Insects xxi. 157 (caption) Honeypot ants represent an adaptation of some ant species to dry and inhospitable environments. 2009 Independent 19 Mar. (Life section) 17/5 Thrifty humans might revive the Mexican habit of biting off the honeypot ant's abdomen for sweet nourishment. < as lemmas |
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