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little black ant

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noun

  1. a widely distributed ant, Monomorium minimum, sometimes a household pest.


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The mosquitoes, and a little black ant, were very annoying during the warm but slightly dewy night.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig

The little black ant is especially bold and warlike.

From Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Cable, George Washington

Dr. Ebrard, who wrote a book about ants and their habits, tells a story of a little black ant who was building an arch at the foundation of a new ant-hill.

From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Stockton, Frank Richard

On a leaf of a huckleberry bush, overhanging the pitcher-plant, a little black ant was running about with the nimble curiosity of her kind.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

At this most critical of all crises in the destiny of the little black ant, the fickle Fortune of the Wild was seized with another whim.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

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