formica sanguinea

1. 1.

   slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere

   Synonymssanguinary ant

   Broaderslave-making ant

   Part ofFormica

Questions about formica sanguinea

What does formica sanguinea mean?

formica sanguinea means "slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere".

What is another word for formica sanguinea?

Close synonyms include sanguinary 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 sanguinea a common word?

formica sanguinea 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.