Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the ant; resembling: an ant.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
ants .
Etymologies
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Examples
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These wretched creatures are the formican representatives of those Oriental despots who are no longer even warlike, but are sunk in sloth and luxury, and pass their lives in eating bang or smoking opium.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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Mr. White of Stonehouse has also noted an exactly similar instance of formican providence.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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Compared with these singular results of formican selection, the mere production or further development of the honey-tubes appears to be a very small matter.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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When a honey-bearer dies at his post, a victim to his zeal for the common good, the workers carefully remove his cold corpse from the roof where it still clings, clip off the head and shoulders from the distended abdomen, and convey their deceased brother piecemeal, in two detachments, to the formican cemetery, undisturbed.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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Unlike most other members of their class, the driver-ants have no settled place of residence; they are vagabonds and wanderers upon the face of the earth, formican tramps, blind beggars, who lead a gipsy existence, and keep perpetually upon the move, smelling their way cautiously from one camping-place to another.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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Francks, her thin black arms out at sharp right angles, her hands makings fists, is formidably formican.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed J. KELLY NESTRUCK 2012
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We saw how well their revolutionary "eating wings sober" strategy was working by the bustling crowds in the dingy formican nightmare of their anti-enjoyment zone
ZUG.com > ZUG Live Luke McKinney 2010
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We saw how well their revolutionary "eating wings sober" strategy was working by the bustling crowds in the dingy formican nightmare of their anti-enjoyment zone
ZUG.com > ZUG Live Luke McKinney 2010
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