Definition of Slave ant

1. Noun. Any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species.

Generic synonyms: Ant, Emmet, Pismire
Specialized synonyms: Formica Fusca

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slave Ant

slaughterperson
slaughters
slaughtre
slaughts
slav
slava
slavas
slave(a)
slave-driver
slave-drivers
slave-girls
slave-maker
slave-making ant
slave ant (current term)
slave away
slave breaker
slave code
slave codes
slave dealer
slave driver
slave labour
slave market
slave owner
slave ship
slave state
slave to fashion
slave trade
slave trader

Literary usage of Slave ant

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

1. Human Submission by Morrison Isaac Swift (1905)
"If he cravenly did so that truce was not binding on the slave ant's sons or sons' ... There never was in all slave-ant history a time when the slave owed a ..."

2. Human Submission by Morrison Isaac Swift (1905)
"If he cravenly did so that truce was not binding on the slave ant's sons or sons' ... There never was in all slave-ant history a time when the slave owed a ..."

3. Kelly's Universal Third Reader by Henry Athanasius Brann (1888)
"I am a little, old, black, slave-ant, and have not much time to tell stories ; but if all you ... After two days, I put into the box one little slave ant. ..."

4. The Continental First[-fifth] Reader by William A. Campbell, Elizabeth A.. Allen (1888)
"After two days, I put into the box one little slave ant. This little creature did not for one moment lose her presence of mind, though the situation was an ..."

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