ANT (network)
WordNet
noun
(1) Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
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Etymology
From from . Cognate with German . The Middle English form was ; a parallel development, , is represented by archaic modern English .
Noun
- Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.