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Origin of driver ant
First recorded in 1855–60
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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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