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meat ant

meat ant noun: iridomyrmex purpureus, a carnivorous ant endemic to Australia.

Noun

meat ant (plural meat ants)

  1. Iridomyrmex purpureus, a carnivorous ant endemic to Australia.
    Synonyms:
    gravel ant, mound ant, red ant, southern meat ant

Synonyms of meat ant

Forms of meat ant

pluralmeat ants

Origin of meat ant

Named after its habit of stripping the meat off dead vertebrates.

Questions about meat ant

What does meat ant mean?
Meat ant means iridomyrmex purpureus, a carnivorous ant endemic to Australia.
What part of speech is meat ant?
Meat ant is a noun.
What is the plural of meat ant?
The plural of meat ant is meat ants.

Words near meat ant in the dictionary

  1. meat and drink
  2. meat and potatoes
  3. meat and three
  4. meat and threes
  5. meat and two veg
  6. meat ant
  7. meat ants
  8. meat assault
  9. meat assaults
  10. meat ax
  11. meat axe

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