Amazon ant

noun

Any ant of the genus Polyergus.

Similar
Polyergus rufescens

Meanings

nounAmazon ant (plural Amazon ants)

plural Amazon ants

  1. Any ant of the genus Polyergus.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounsmall reddish slave-making ant species

Similar
Polyergus rufescens

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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