Ant

[ænt]

解释:

(noun.) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers.

手打:洛葛仙妮--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

手打:特雷弗

同义词及近义词：

n. Pismire, emmet.

编辑:纽曼

解释:

n. a small insect: the emmet or pismire.—ns. Ant′-bear one of the largest species of the ant-eaters found in the swampy regions in Central and Southern America also called the Great Ant-eater; Ant′-cow (see Aphides); Ant′-eat′er a genus of edentate South American quadrupeds feeding on insects and chiefly on ants which they procure by means of their very long cylindrical tongue covered with a viscid saliva; Ant′-hill the hillock raised by ants to form their nest: also figuratively applied as to the earth; Ant′-thrush a general name applied to birds of tropical and sub-tropical countries which feed to a large extent on ants.

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