| 单词 | mound ant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmound ant mound ant n. any of various ants which build nests in the form of large mounds; (Australian) = meat ant n. at meat n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Irydomyrmex mound ant1879 meat ant1900 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Irydomyrmex > iridomyrmex detectus (meat ant) mound ant1879 meat ant1900 1879 Amer. Naturalist 13 527 The habits of the mound ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis, a common and characteristic ant of the Western plains. 1907 W. W. Froggatt Austral. Insects 95 Most of them [sc. ants of the genus Iridomyrmex] are small, except our ‘Mound Ant’, sometimes known as the ‘Meat Ant’, Iridomyrmex detectus, which is the commonest and most widely distributed ant in Australia. 1935 K. C. McKeown Insect Wonders Austral. 5 The Mound Ants form their great gravel nests in the grassy plains, scouring in search of food. 1992 Insectes Sociaux 39 385 (title) Nest structure and colony cycle of the Allegheny mound ant, Formica exsectoides. < as lemmas |
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