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slave-maker

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Noun1.slave-maker - an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
slave-making ant
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 sanguinea, sanguinary ant - slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere
Amazon ant, Polyergus rufescens - small reddish slave-making ant species
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Another day my attention was struck by about a score of the slave-makers haunting the same spot, and evidently not in search of food; they approached and were vigorously repulsed by an independent community of the slave species (F.
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