noun
definition
Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
definition
A Web spider.
verb
definition
To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
Examples of ant in a Sentence
The ant was carrying a grain of wheat as large as itself.
Just as he spoke, the ant lost its footing and fell to the ground.
Perhaps, however, the name may only signify a large terrestrial biting apterous insect, surpassing the ant in size and predatory habits.
Others again play the part of thieves in the ant society; C. Janet observed a small bristle-tail (Lepismima) to lurk beneath the heads of two Lasius workers, while one passed food to the other, in order to steal the drop of nourishment and to make off with it.
Each foraging ant brings back about one and a half times its own weight in food each day.
The -fact that the name of the ant has come down in English from a thousand years ago shows that this class of insects impressed the old inhabitants of England as they impressed the Hebrews and Greeks.
For a general account of the structure, development and relationships of insects, see Arthropoda and Hexapoda, while details of the form, habits and classification of insects will be found in articles on the various orders or groups of orders (Aptera, Coleoptera, Dipteria,Hemiptera,Hymenoptera,Lepidoptera,Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Thysanoptera), and in special articles on the more familiar divisions (ANT, BEE, Dragon-Fly, Earwig, &c.).
A sex crazed flying ant with a clown's face!
Worker caste polymorphism has a genetic basis in a leaf-cutting ant.
In Roger's absence, Dave took over control of erecting the area banner and flag whilst Ant supervised putting up the gazebo.
Born Free cares about the welfare of every individual animal from the tiniest ant to the gigantic blue whale.
In that context ' ant ' is a free morpheme.
The Spaniards skilfully avoided a battle, and in Alva November the invaders were compelled to withdraw triumph- p ant.
In the Hemipterous group of the Rhynchota ant-mimicry is illustrated by the larva of a British species of Reduviidae (Nabis lativentris) in which the forepart of the abdomen is furnished on each side with a patch of white hairs leaving a central narrow dark portion in imitation of the waist of the ant; and also by an East African species (Myrmoplasta mira) which in its general form exhibits a close resemblance to an ant (Polyrrhacis gagates) which occurs in the same neighbourhood.
In this case also the posterior end of the larva represents the anterior end of the ant.
The structural modifications required to convert a spider into the image of an ant are of a more complicated character than those that serve the same purpose in an insect.
Narrowing of the posterior portions of the spider's cephalothorax and sometimes of the anterior end of the abdomen reproduces the slender waist of the ant, and frequently transverse bands of hairs represent the segmentation of this region in the insect.
To this category belong Myrmarachne plataleoides, one of the Salticidae, and Amyciaea forticeps, one of the Thomisidae, which in India imitate and live with the vicious little red ant (Oecophylla smaragdina); also Myrmarachne providens, which mimics the red and black Indian ant (Sima rufonigra); and the South American species of Clubionidae, e.g.
Myrmecium nigrum, which is an accurate copy of the large black ant (Pachycondyla villosa).
In South Africa too the males of a species of Eresidae (Seothyra) resemble and are found in company with a large ant (Camponotus fulvopilosus), which is common on the veld.
That the ants do not destroy them is certain; but that they are deceived by the superficial similarity of the spiders to themselves is highly improbable, for these insects are capable of distinguishing a strange ant belonging to the same species if it comes from another colony.
Besides an edition of the book of Job, .containing the original text, the Vulgate, and a new translation, he published a Latin version of the Moreh Nevochim of Maimonides (Director dubitantium ant per plexorum, 1520), and also edited in Latin the Aureus libellus of Aeneas Platonicus, and the Timaeus of Chalcidius.
The greatest artists in metal laboured on it in succession, among them Orcagna, Ghiberti, Verrocchio, Ant.
There are also two kinds of ants, the semut dpi (" fire ant") and the semut ldda (" pepper ant"), whose bites are peculiarly painful.
Although we have no record of Median language we cannot regard it as differing to any great ant from the Persian.
This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under Ane to Ant.
Among the many varieties of trees and plants found are the date palm, mimosa, wild olive, giant sycamores, junipers and laurels, the myrrh and other gum trees (gnarled and stunted, these flourish most on the eastern foothills), a magnificent pine (the Natal yellow pine, which resists the attacks of the white ant), the fig, orange, lime, pomegranate, peach, apricot, banana and other fruit trees; the grape vine (rare), blackberry and raspberry; the cotton and indigo plants, and occasionally the sugar cane.
Why did various royal houses claim descent from the ant, the swan, the she-bear, the serpent, the horse and so forth ?
On hot days the spider appears to become more active in the early evening, possibly a response to slower ant activity.
I don't want to swing off-topic onto red ant to swing off-topic onto red Ant.
At no stage during the conference did CG put up ant sort of fight for its once cherished aim of an independent socialist republic.
It focuses on applying ant colony behavior to search the robot's configuration space.
The pictures don't show ant furry dice, I they still with the car?
The third Ant was an Ant class gunboat, launched 1873 and scrapped 1926.
Army ant swarms are found frequently, sometimes attended by Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo, and there are many manakin leks right beside the road.
Snake or deer pistol (penis) is meant to enhance male libido and ant aids female fertility.
The trails produced many lifers, especially when we watched an ant swarm for more than one hour.
Wood ant nests are a common sight in some parts of the Caledonian Forest.
Do you for one welcome our new ant overlords?
If an ant is squashed clean the spot well as the corpse will release pheromones which will attract others.
In an act of justice, the wizard ant Zoc magically shrinks Lucas to the size of an ant.
I would haue staid till I had made you merry, If worthier friends had not preuented me Ant.
First stop is for an army ant swarm, not far from the drive entrance.
As for Ant & Dec, they lost over a million viewers as they were roundly trounced by the return of the Timelord.
One of the most interesting features of ant-societies is the dimorphism or polymorphism that may often be seen among the workers, the same species being represented by two or more forms. Thus the British " wood ant " (Formica rufa) has a smaller and a larger race of workers (" minor " and " major " forms), while in Ponera we find a blind race of workers and another race provided with eyes, and in Atta, Eciton and other genera, four or five forms of workers are produced, the largest of which, with huge heads and elongate trenchant mandibles, are known as the " soldier " caste.
In the ao-Bizen (blu Bizen), as well as in the red variety, figures of mythical beings ant animals, birds, fishes and other natural objects, were modelled witl a degree of plastic ability that can scarcely be spoken of in too higi terms. Representative specimens are truly admirableevery line, every contour faithful.
The differentiation of the females leads to a complex social life, the nesting habits of ants and the various industries that they pursue being of surpassing interest (see ANT).
The legs become slender and those of the first or of the second pairs are held up and carried in front of the head to simulate the antennae of the ant.
Moreover, the above-suggested explanation does not coincide with the explanation of the likeness to ants shown by certain insects such as Myrecophana fallax, the ant and leaf-like Membracid Homopteron and the larvae of the lobster-moth (Stauropos fagi), which are plant-eaters.
Furthermore, he must abstain all his life from sexual intercourse; he may not take even a blade of grass without permission of the owner; he must not kill even a worm or ant; he must not boast of his perfection.