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antlions

antlions is the plural of antlion.

Meaning of antlion

Noun

antlion (plural antlions)

  1. Any of various species of insects, many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae. The adults superficially resemble the unrelated damselflies. The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants.

Questions about antlions

What is antlions the plural of?
Antlions is the plural of antlion.

Words near antlions in the dictionary

  1. antliae
  2. antlike
  3. antling
  4. antlings
  5. antlion
  6. antlions
  7. antlophobia
  8. antly
  9. Antman
  10. Antmans
  11. antmire

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antlions (page history and authors); antlion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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