polyergus rufescens

1. 1.

   small reddish slave-making ant species

   SynonymsAmazon ant

   Broaderslave-making ant

   Part ofPolyergus

Questions about polyergus rufescens

What does polyergus rufescens mean?

polyergus rufescens means "small reddish slave-making ant species".

What is another word for polyergus rufescens?

Close synonyms include Amazon 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 polyergus rufescens a common word?

polyergus rufescens 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.