lestobiotic
lestobiotic adjective: surviving by covertly stealing food.
Adjective
lestobiotic (comparative more lestobiotic, superlative most lestobiotic)
- Surviving by covertly stealing food.
- The walls of the galleries in some of the formicaries were tenanted by teeming colonies of the minute lestobiotic, or thief ant, Solenopsis molesta Say.1902, William Morton Wheeler, “The Occurrence of Formica Cinerea Mayr and Formica Rufibarbis Fabricius in America”, in The American Naturalist, volume XXXVI, number 432, Essex Institute, page 952
- His was patriotism whose cause and consequence were mutually derived from the interplay of the dynamics of micro and macro forces within the Nigerian nation-state with its lestobiotic tendencies.2003, L. Ayo Banjo, Bola Ige: the passage of a modern Cicero, Bookcraft, →ISBN, page 95
Forms of lestobiotic
| comparative | more lestobiotic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most lestobiotic |
Questions about lestobiotic
- What does lestobiotic mean?
- Lestobiotic means surviving by covertly stealing food.
- What part of speech is lestobiotic?
- Lestobiotic is an adjective.
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