slave ant

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slave ant

An ant captured and raised as a worker by slave-making ants.

slave ant

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various ants, esp Formica fusca, captured and forced to do the work of a colony of ants of another species (slave-making ants) See also amazon ant

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slave ant - any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species

ant, emmet, pismire - social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

Formica fusca - an ant frequently enslaved

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