amazon ant

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   small reddish slave-making ant species

   SynonymsPolyergus rufescens

   Broaderslave-making ant

   Part ofPolyergus

Questions about amazon ant

What does amazon ant mean?

amazon ant means "small reddish slave-making ant species".

What is another word for amazon ant?

Close synonyms include Polyergus rufescens. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amazon ant a common word?

amazon ant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.