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noun
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Origin of driver ant

First recorded in 1855–60
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How to use driver ant in a sentence

  • Another frequent guest is the driver ant, which travels in armies and frequently takes complete possession of a house.

    An African Adventure|Isaac F. Marcosson
  • In the driver ant of West Africa one kind of neuter is three times the size of the other, and has jaws nearly five times as long.

British Dictionary definitions for driver ant

driver ant

noun
any of various tropical African predatory ants of the subfamily Dorylinae, which live in temporary nests and travel in vast hordes preying on other animalsSee also army ant
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