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Definition of Slave-making ant

1. Noun. An ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slave-making Ant

Literary usage of Slave-making ant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"If we had not known of any other slave-making ant, it would have been hopeless to speculate how so wonderful an instinct could have been perfected. ..."

2. The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Part Fifth by Thomas Wallace Knox (1884)
"... and whether the old ones are retained when the children no longer require their attention has not been ascertained." A slave-making ant, MAGNIFIED. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... also a slave-making ant, and Latreille very justly observes that it is physically impossible for the rufescent ants (P. rufescens), on account of the ..."

4. Stepping Stones to Literature by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1897)
"If we had not known of any other slave-making ant, it would have been hopeless to speculate how so wonderful an instinct could have been perfected. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"... is also a slave-making ant, and Latreille very justly observes that it is physically impossible for the rufescent ants (P. ..."

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