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ant

/ant/US // ænt //UK // (ænt) //

蚂蚁,蚁族,前者,反之亦然

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of numerous black, red, brown, or yellow social insects of the family Formicidae, of worldwide distribution especially in warm climates, having a large head with inner jaws for chewing and outer jaws for carrying and digging, and living in highly organized colonies containing wingless female workers, a winged queen, and, during breeding seasons, winged males, some species being noted for engaging in warfare, slavemaking, or the cultivation of food sources.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inrestlessness
as ininquietude
as inrestiveness
as inunease

Examples

  • The most cooperative organisms like ants, bees, termites—or, if you want to compare mammals to mammals, the beautiful naked mole rats—aren’t renowned for their brilliance.

  • So the ants evolved to leave the ancestral germline as a “decoy” to attract the bacteria, Rajakumar said.

  • In exchange, the carpenter ants provide a protective cellular environment for the Blochmannia and transmit them to their offspring, ensuring the bacteria’s survival.

  • Yet while the cows’ bacteria merely inhabit the animals’ stomach, the bacteria in the ants live inside their gut cells as endosymbionts.

  • Bullet ant stings, he finds, are roughly 10 times more painful.

  • An Uber driver went on an anti-gay, ant-American rant before physically assaulting his passenger.

  • I was reducing everything to ant scale, the U.S. included—an ant White House, an ant CIA, an ant Congress, an ant Pentagon.

  • Strangely, he did this by diluting the sting of the ant scene.

  • In the U.S. view a small group—or cadre—of fierce red ants have taken power and are opposing the black-ant majority.

  • RAMON: (Seething with contempt) Secret ant landing strips, illegally established on foreign soil.

  • Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.

  • Pervenimvs huc (sicut ant numeratum est) vigesim secund Maij.

  • Because we are crowded here and there in the ant-hills of our cities, we dream that the world is full.

  • But Burguy explains that romant is a false form, due to confusion with words rightly ending in -ant.

  • The ant individual preserves its powers of observation and thought and may initiate new processes.