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ant mills

ant mills is the plural of ant mill.

Meaning of ant mill

Noun

ant mill (plural ant mills)

  1. A phenomenon where a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle and eventually dying of exhaustion.
    Synonyms:
    death spiral

Questions about ant mills

What is ant mills the plural of?
Ant mills is the plural of ant mill.

Words near ant mills in the dictionary

  1. ant hill
  2. ant hills
  3. ant lion
  4. ant lions
  5. ant mill
  6. ant mills
  7. ant mimicry
  8. ant mound
  9. ant mounds
  10. ant nest beetle
  11. ant nest beetles

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