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strigilators

strigilators is the plural of strigilator.

Meaning of strigilator

Noun

strigilator (plural strigilators)

  1. Any of various myrmecophiles that feed on the oily secretions on the bodies of ants.
    • These little crickets belong to a group of Synoeketes which Wheeler has called Strigilators. They lick the surfaces of ants and seem to feed very largely, if not exclusively, on the cutaneous secretions and the thin coating of saliva with which ants cover one another.1927, Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe, The guests of British ants: their habits and life-histories

Questions about strigilators

What is strigilators the plural of?
Strigilators is the plural of strigilator.

Words near strigilators in the dictionary

  1. strigids
  2. strigiform
  3. strigiforms
  4. strigil
  5. strigilator
  6. strigilators
  7. strigilis
  8. strigillose
  9. strigillosely
  10. strigilose
  11. strigils

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