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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the agamic or asexual females of plant-lice and some other insects which reproduce without union with the male.
  • noun A curious caste or form of ant occurring in the colonies of certain species, as Formica sanguinea, in which is combined the thorax of a female with the abdomen and size of a worker.

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