Meanings
nounbull ant (plural bull ants)
plural bull ants
- Myrmecia brevinoda
Occasionally I would see their innards revealed by a gang of men in Jackie Howes with jack-hammers and chinking mattocks picked^([sic]) the sleepers clean of ballast like bull ants cleaning up a fish′s frame.
2010, Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy: A Child's Odyssey through the 1950s, page 194
Synonyms & antonyms
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Translations
Esperanto soldatformiko
- soldatformikoMyrmecia brevinoda
Italian formica bulldog, formica sergente
- formica bulldogMyrmecia brevinoda
- formica sergenteMyrmecia brevinoda
Russian мураве́й-бульдо́г
- мураве́й-бульдо́г (muravéj-bulʹdóg)Myrmecia brevinoda
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“bull ant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bull%20ant. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
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