siafun.
/sɪˈɑːfuː/ = safari ant n. at safari n. Compounds 3. Also attributive.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Dorylus
driver ant1843
driver1847
army ant1870
safari ant1910
siafu1959
1920 G. D. H. Carpenter Naturalist on Lake Victoria xii. 276 The ant that most obtrusively calls for notice is the well known Dorylus or ‘Safari ant’,..in Kiswahili called ‘Siafu’.]
1959 E. Huxley Flame Trees of Thika xv. 154 The rain brought out the siafu. Those fearful black rivers of implacable insects poured between their low mud banks over the garden.
1976 K. Thackeray Crownbird ix. 189 A crawling mass of siafu, large safari ants with big pincers.
1977 Reader & Croze Pyramids of Life 212/1 The most effective and thorough carnivore hunter in the forest is a colony of siafu (Dorylus), the so-called army ant.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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