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slave-making ant

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various species of ant, such as Polyergus breviceps, that raid the nests of other ants and carry off the pupae in order to provide workers for their own colony.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants

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