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bull ants

bull ants is the plural of bull ant.

Meaning of bull ant

Noun

bull ant (plural bull ants)

  1. Myrmecia brevinoda
    • Occasionally I would see their innards revealed by a gang of men in Jackie Howes with jack-hammers and chinking mattocks picked^([sic]) the sleepers clean of ballast like bull ants cleaning up a fish′s frame.2010, Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy: A Child's Odyssey through the 1950s, page 194

Questions about bull ants

What is bull ants the plural of?
Bull ants is the plural of bull ant.

Words near bull ants in the dictionary

  1. bulky refuse
  2. bulky waste
  3. bull
  4. bull and cow
  5. bull ant
  6. bull ants
  7. bull bar
  8. bull bars
  9. bull butter
  10. bull con
  11. bull cons

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