: any of a family (Formicidae) of colonial hymenopterous insects with a complex social organization and various castes performing special duties
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antenna
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antonym
Antarctica
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: one that performs (a specified action) : personal or impersonal agent
claimant
coolant
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: thing that promotes (a specified action or process)
expectorant
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: one connected with
annuitant
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: thing acted upon (in a specified manner)
inhalant
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: performing (a specified action) or being (in a specified condition)
somnambulant
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: promoting (a specified action or process)
expectorant
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Munn then detailed how at that moment, her mother was blasting YouTube videos, her stepfather was running around the house trying to kill ants, Mulaney was cleaning up a rat that had been run over in front of their house, and their 3-year-old son was in a space suit, peeing off the balcony.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
Ophiocordyceps, which infects ants, forces them to climb to elevated locations before killing them, allowing the fungus to release spores from their corpses.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
The presence of extrafloral nectar doesn’t mean that the citrus plant will draw ants into the house, but the secretions may be a sticky minor nuisance.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Unlike Ophiocordyceps, which forces ants to clamp onto vegetation before a fruiting body erupts from their heads, Gibellula species spread in a finer, more filamentous way, using the entire spider’s body as a fungal scaffolding.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Munn then detailed how at that moment, her mother was blasting YouTube videos, her stepfather was running around the house trying to kill ants, Mulaney was cleaning up a rat that had been run over in front of their house, and their 3-year-old son was in a space suit, peeing off the balcony.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
Ophiocordyceps, which infects ants, forces them to climb to elevated locations before killing them, allowing the fungus to release spores from their corpses.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
The presence of extrafloral nectar doesn’t mean that the citrus plant will draw ants into the house, but the secretions may be a sticky minor nuisance.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Ant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ant. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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