Amazon ant
noun
: an ant of a genus (Polyergus) of slave-making ants of Europe and America which carry away and rear in their own nests the larvae and nymphs of other species
Word History
Etymology
so called from the legend that the Amazons captured children from other tribes and reared them as their own
First Known Use
1813, in the meaning defined above
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