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单词 myrmecioid
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myrmecioidadj.n.

Brit. /məːˈmiːsɪɔɪd/, U.S. /mərˈmisiˌɔɪd/
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin Myrmecinae , -oid suffix; Latin Myrmecia.
Etymology: Either < myrmeci- (in scientific Latin Myrmeciinae , subfamily name < Myrmecia , genus name (see below) + -inae -inae suffix) + -oid suffix, or directly < scientific Latin Myrmecia, genus name (J. C. Fabricius Systema Piezatorum (1804) 423; < ancient Greek μυρμηκ- (see myrmeco- comb. form) + scientific Latin -ia -ia suffix2) + -oid suffix.
Entomology.
A. adj.
Designating a group of ants including the subfamily Myrmeciinae and certain closely related subfamilies. Esp. in myrmecioid complex. Cf. poneroid adj.
ΚΠ
1954 W. L. Brown in Insectes Sociaux 1 24 I regard the subfamilies Myrmeciinæ, Dolichoderinæ, Formicinæ and Pseudomyrmicinæ as composing one phylogenetic unit, which may be called the ‘Myrmecioid Complex’.
1967 Science 1 Sept. 1039/2 One interesting aspect of the morphology of Sphecomyrma is that in ‘ant characters’ it does fall so close to the myrmecioid complex of genera.
1971 Amer. Naturalist 105 281 In ants generally, including the more primitive members of the myrmecioid complex outside of the Formicinae.., the gland is small to moderate in size and single-lobed.
B. n.
An ant belonging to the myrmecioid complex. rare.
ΚΠ
1967 Psyche 74 14 The split between myrmecioids and poneroids must have come at a time when ants were still very wasp-like.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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