formica rufa

1. 1.

   reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands

   Synonymswood ant

   Broaderant

   Part ofFormica

Questions about formica rufa

What does formica rufa mean?

formica rufa means "reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands".

What is another word for formica rufa?

Close synonyms include wood ant. 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 formica rufa a common word?

formica rufa 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.