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单词 slave ant
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slave ant
slave ant n. Entomology an ant captured, typically as a larva or pupa, by ants of another colony (and usually a different species) for use as a worker; = sense A. 4. [Compare earlier slave-making adj. 2, slave-maker n. 2, and later dulosis n.]
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1840 W. Swainson On Habits & Instincts Animals x. 335 Not being then acquainted with the slave ants, it was natural for us to conclude..that these pupæ rightly belonged to those who were conveying them; and whom we supposed were their parents.
1934 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 30 May b11/2 I was watching the nest of some slave ants, which was, as usual, guarded by several sentinels.
2017 Western Folklore 73 450 Slave ants cannot recognize that they are working for a queen to which they are totally unrelated.
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