单词 | driver ant |
释义 | > as lemmasdriver ant driver ant n. Brit. /ˈdrʌɪvər ant/ , U.S. /ˈdraɪvər ˌænt/ , West African English /ˌdraiva ˈant/ any of various tropical ants of the subfamily Dorylinae, esp. the genus Dorylus, which forage in large columns that prey mainly on insects and spiders; cf. sense 6.Also called army ant, safari ant.ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Dorylus driver ant1843 driver1847 army ant1870 safari ant1910 siafu1959 1843 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 3 Oct. African black, or Driver ants. 1865 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxiv. 447 They are called Driver Ants because they drive before them every living creature. 1975 E. O. Wilson Sociobiol. xx. 399/1 A colony of the African driver ant Dorylus wilverthi..may contain as many as 22 million workers weighing a total of over 20 kilograms. 2011 Sci. Amer. Dec. 66/2 In Gabon I once saw an antelope, caught in a snare, eaten alive by a colony of driver ants. < as lemmas |
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