Lexicographical Neighbors of Ergatoid
Literary usage of Ergatoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"From what we know of other ante we could hardly suppose a Lasius worker to function
as Castle imagines possible unless it were either a true or an ergatoid ..."
2. Comparative Studies in the Psychology of Ants and of Higher Animals by Erich Wasmann (1905)
"The ergatoid queens I met hitherto only in nests with ^Mica-slaves. 2) It happened
only very seldom (among several hundred observations only five ..."
3. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"I have looked for it carefully in the British ant collections at Oxford and the
British Museum, etc., as being apterous and very ergatoid it might well have ..."
4. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"... the ergatoid fertile female (a form intermediate between female and worker),
the soldier, the worker major, and one or more kinds of worker minor. ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"... but it seems probable that it really is so, the ergatoid males being produced
under somewhat different circumstances from the normal males. ..."
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