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suff.
    1. Performing, promoting, or causing a specified action: acceptant.
    2. Being in a specified state or condition: flippant.
    1. One that performs, promotes, or causes a specified action: deodorant.
    2. One that undergoes a specified action: inhalant.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -āns, -ant-, present participle suff. of verbs in -āre.]


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - myrekryb

Français (French)
n. - myrmécophile

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sich-mit-Ameisen-Einreiben

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τοποθέτηση μυρμηγκιών στα φτερά πουλιών για την εξόντωση παρασίτων

Italiano (Italian)
raccogliere formiche (ornitol.)

Português (Portuguese)
n. - comportamento (m) de aves para obter produtos químicos de formigas

Русский (Russian)
набирание птицей муравьев в перья

Español (Spanish)
n. - conducta de los pájaros que frotan hormigas contra las alas

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fåglar stoppar myror i fjädrarna

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
蚁浴, 鸟类用蚂蚁去除羽虱

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 蟻浴, 鳥類用螞蟻去除羽蝨

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 새가 날개를 펴고 날개에 있는 벌레를 잡아 먹는 행동이나 땅의 벌레를 잡아 먹는 행동

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 蟻浴

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הכנסת נמלים לבין הנוצות ע"י מספר ציפורים כנראה כדי לחסל טפילים‬


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