Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ant of the family Formicidæ.
- Of or pertaining to the Formicidæ. Also
formicide .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the ants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any member of the
ant family Formicidae .
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Examples
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"The new T. rex joins four other species that use this abbreviated name, including two Miocene fossils [a snail and a scarab beetle], a living Malaysian formicid ant, and, of course, the infamous Cretaceous theropod dinosaur that was described in 1905 by an earlier curator of the American Museum of Natural History."
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"The new T. rex joins four other species that use this abbreviated name, including two Miocene fossils (a snail and a scarab beetle), a living Malaysian formicid ant, and, of course, the infamous Cretaceous theropod dinosaur that was described in 1905 by an earlier curator of the American Museum of Natural History."
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