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Definition of Ant cow
1. Noun. Excretes a honeylike substance eaten by ants.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ant Cow
Literary usage of Ant cow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Teacher (1892)
"Did you ever see an ant cow ? I turned up the leaf of a great " elephant ear "
plant one day and found on it an ant cow pasture. ..."
2. Nature Readers: Sea-side and Way-side. No. 1-4 by Julia McNair Wright (1888)
"What insect is called the " ant's cow " ? 12. Tell me something about the ants
and their cow. 13. How does the ant dress and cleanse its body ? 14. ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1907)
"The author shows ants at work and play, doing sentinel duty, going on outings,
milking the "ant-cow" and capturing prisoners for slavery, etc. ..."
4. The Prison Life of Jefferson Davis by John Joseph Craven, ( (2001)
"... because finding in them a species of grass-louse called the ant-cow, which
the ant milks by suction as its favorite food, the cows not resisting lest ..."
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