carpenter ant

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   ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs

   Broaderant

   Part ofCamponotus

Questions about carpenter ant

What does carpenter ant mean?

carpenter ant means "ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs".

Is carpenter ant a common word?

carpenter 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.