honey ant

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noun

any of several ants, especially of the genus Myrmecocystus, that feed on honeydew or nectar and store the excess juices in the bodies of certain worker ants.

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Origin of honey ant

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby honey ant

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How to use honey ant in a sentence

There is a curious kind of ant in the southwestern states and Mexico called the honey ant.
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No. 2, September 1899|Various
The honey-ant is herself a storehouse of food in case of famine.
Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No. 3, March 1899|Various
Two species which are now attached to the honey-ant were formerly honey-ants, etc.
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life|Emile Durkheim
Here we have the churinga ilkinia, or sacred rock-drawing, in red and white, of the honey ant totem in the Warramunga tribe.
Magic and Religion|Andrew Lang

Acre after acre of the soil wherein lives the honey ant is dug over for this toothsome mite.
Oriental Women|Edward Bagby Pollard