: 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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a
: one that performs (a specified action) : personal or impersonal agent
claimant
coolant
b
: 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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Popular Science Staff, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
There are few things as unpleasant as ants in your kitchen.
—Tamara Gane, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
If an ant is trapped in sand, its fellow-ants will attempt to save its life, pulling on its limbs and digging away at the sand to try to free it.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Most was removed back in 1953, when the Army leveled the site with bulldozers, but tunnel-digging ants occasionally push pieces of it up to the surface.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The devastation that wiped out the dinosaurs created ideal conditions for various fungi to thrive, and ants actually began to cultivate fungi.
—Popular Science Staff, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
There are few things as unpleasant as ants in your kitchen.
—Tamara Gane, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
If an ant is trapped in sand, its fellow-ants will attempt to save its life, pulling on its limbs and digging away at the sand to try to free it.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Most was removed back in 1953, when the Army leveled the site with bulldozers, but tunnel-digging ants occasionally push pieces of it up to the surface.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Ant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ant. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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