Definitions
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- n. One who studies ants.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An entomologist who makes a special study of ants, or of myrmeeology.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This little ant simply walked up to myrmecologist Christian Rabeling in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Carl Frederick's "The Study of Ants" seemed to be the real winner in this bunch - an myrmecologist (ant scientist) teaches an ant how to play chess, and the ants are VERY upset when another scientist cheats by taking a move back.
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By my college years, I was a devoted myrmecologist, a specialist in the biology of ants.
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Wilson was a myrmecologist, a specialist on the biology of ants.
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After dismissing both cat-ant and catsect, he remembered that someone who studies ants is called a myrmecologist.
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Haeckel defends the resulting system of thought against a variety of opponents, ranging from embryologist Wilhelm His to Jesuit myrmecologist Erich Wasmann.
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American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology.
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In any case, a while back myrmecologist Brian Fisher loaned me a captive colony of his beloved
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As an insular myrmecologist I am a failure, though Ted Case knows it isn’t my fault.
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