| 单词 | green tree ant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen tree ant green tree ant n. a green-bodied arboreal weaver ant, Oecophylla smaragdina, of Asia and northern Australia, which makes nests by stitching leaves together and has a painful bite. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > unspecified types musk-ant1671 velvet ant1748 soldier1781 raffle ant1793 Amazon-ant1824 green tree ant1845 brown ant1868 harvesting ant1873 Amazon1880 crazy ant1885 crazy ant1905 1845 L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 16 June (1847) 291 It was at the lower part of the Lynd that we first saw the green-tree ant; which seemed to live in small societies in rude nests between the green leaves of shady trees. 1936 T. C. Roughley Wonders Great Barrier Reef 176 ‘Hell has no fury like a woman scorned,’ wrote Congreve early in the seventeenth century. The green tree-ant was obviously not known then. 2009 Townsville Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 4 Apr. 26 In the case of green tree ants, which create white football-sized nests in vegetation such as palms, they were being spurred on by recent plant growth. < as lemmas |
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