Amazon ant


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amazon ant

n
(Animals) any of several small reddish ants of the genusPolyergus, espP. rufescens, that enslave the young of other ant species
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.amazon ant - small reddish slave-making ant speciesAmazon ant - small reddish slave-making ant species
slave-maker,slave-making ant - an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
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Le Moli, "Mating and post-mating behaviour of the Europeanamazon ant, Polyergus rufescens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)," Bolletino Zoologia, vol.
Rossomyrmex, the slave-maker ants from the arid steppe environments
On the other hand, Morse's score for The Colony, in which a queenAmazon ant (Lloyd) tries to mate with the human exterminator (Klassen), was almost Handelian in its use of such Baroque opera conventions as a lament.
It is easy to miss the forest for the trees in Tapestry's annual Opera to Go
Mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabo played the Queen of theAmazon Ants, in need of a lover to propagate the race, and she sets her sights on tenor Keith Klassen, who is an exterminator.
Tapestry New Opera Works

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