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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An ant captured and raised as a worker by slave-making ants.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species
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