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n.
Any of various rapacious tropical ants of the family Formicidae that move in swarms and that subsist on other insects. Also called driver ant, legionary ant.


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Meaning #1: tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects
  Synonyms: driver ant, legionary ant


 
 
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