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ants

/ant/US // ænt //UK // (ænt) //

蚂蚁,蚂蚁们,蚁族,螞蟻

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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

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

  • Ted points out a small patch in the grass where there are some red ants.

  • Or how leaf-cutter ants cultivate a specific type of fungus so precious it is carried by the queen when she starts a new colony.

  • Dr. Tanning assured me that these feelings were not just ANTS (“automatic negative thoughts,” in therapy parlance).

  • Then, a joke was rewriting the lunchroom menu to include "scrambled snails" and “fried ants.”

  • They destroy ants and spiders and other creeping things, so that Alila's mother never kills them nor drives them away.

  • The most destructive insects are the ants, and every variety of them that can hurt vegetable life is to be found here.

  • The solitary ants, on the contrary, manifest no special intelligence, and do not rise above the general insect level.

  • A few days later she was prouder still when they scampered this way and that, pecking at little bugs and ants.

  • Another poison is of a pale glue color, which is supposed by Stanley to be made of crushed red ants.