| 单词 | nurse ant | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasnurse ant  b.   (In sense  5a.)  nurse ant,  nurse bee,  nurse worker, etc. ΚΠ 1818    W. Kirby  & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. 		(ed. 3)	 I. xv. 493  				The nurse-bees..do secrete wax, but in very small quantities. 1834    Penny Cycl. II. 60/1  				A sort of barren females,..variously termed neuters, workers, or nurse-ants. 1960    D. C. Braungart  & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. 		(ed. 5)	 xii. 190  				All larvae..are fed on the same kind of food the first three days. This is a rich, predigested food supplied by the nurse bees and called ‘royal jelly’. 1995    Amer. Naturalist 145 844  				In [the ant] Lasius flavus, the mite Antennophorus grandis has been shown to occur preferentially on the smaller nurse workers. < as lemmas | 
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