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leaf-cutter ants

leaf-cutter ants is the plural of leaf-cutter ant.

Meaning of leaf-cutter ant

Noun

leaf-cutter ant (plural leaf-cutter ants)

  1. Any of the 41 species of ants in the genera Atta and Acromyrmex, that cut fragments from leaves and takes them to its colony's nest.

Questions about leaf-cutter ants

What is leaf-cutter ants the plural of?
Leaf-cutter ants is the plural of leaf-cutter ant.

Words near leaf-cutter ants in the dictionary

  1. leaf-curling plum aphids
  2. leaf-curling spider
  3. leaf-curling spiders
  4. leaf-cutter
  5. leaf-cutter ant
  6. leaf-cutter ants
  7. leaf-cutter bee
  8. leaf-cutter bees
  9. leaf-cutters
  10. leaf-cutting
  11. leaf-cutting ant

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