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Amazon ant

American  

noun

  1. any of several ants of the genus Polyergus that raid the nests of other species, carrying off and enslaving the young.

amazon ant British  

noun

  1. any of several small reddish ants of the genus Polyergus, esp P. rufescens, that enslave the young of other ant species

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And here, on a hot summer afternoon, is the Amazon ant, who leaves her barrack rooms in long battalions and marches far afield to hunt for slaves.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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