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leafcutter ant in British English (ˈliːfˌkʌtə) nounany of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed Examples of 'leafcutter ant' in a sentenceleafcutter ant At the other end of the spectrum are the leafcutter ants, the benign farmers of the insect world.And when you get down to the invertebrates, it would be impossible to count all the leafcutter ants.The biggest colony of leafcutter ants in Britain has self-destructed after chewing through a power cable.Máté spent hours watching leafcutter ants in the Costa Rican rainforest in order to photograph them.Leafcutter colonies can best be understood scientifically as complex organic structures with a single purpose: the conversion of plant life into more colonies of leafcutter ants. Word lists withleafcutter ant ant, bee, wasp© Eric Isselee, shutterstock |