Definition of ant
:any of a family (Formicidae) of colonial hymenopterous insects with a complex social organization and various castes performing special duties
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Verbs Netflix ascending, fire ants floating, space travelers sleeping, hero seeing all.
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Cutthroat, rainbow and brook trout should be biting on flies (try hoppers, ants, leeches and streamers), spinners, Rapalas and bait.
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An ant colony, for instance, has a huge number of sterile female workers who help raise the young of a kindred queen.
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About 150 to 200 ants also were present along the floor/wall junction in the dish area.
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The red ants open the show with a precise, jaw-dropping, foot-juggling act; then a dragonfly performs an amazing hand-balancing act that had my kids both oooh-ing and ew-ing at his strength and flexibility.
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Fire ants use their bodies to build wriggling Eiffel Tower-like columns:
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Wimbledon, one of the most prominent tennis tournaments in the world, was faced with a predicament today: A massive swarm of flying ants infiltrated the courts, wreaking havoc on the players, umpires, and spectators.
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In a combined 37 G League games (nine starts) with the 905, Mad Ants and Legends, Uthoff averaged 11.1 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 24.4 minutes.
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Origin and Etymology of ant
Middle English ante, emete, from Old English æmette; akin to Old High German āmeiza ant
Ant
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Definition of Ant
Antarctica
Origin and Etymology of -ant
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from -ant, present participle suffix, from Latin -ant-, -ans, present participle suffix of first conjugation, from -a- (stem vowel of first conjugation) + -nt-, -ns, present participle suffix; akin to Old English -nde, present participle suffix, Greek -nt-, -n, participle suffix
ANT Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of ant for English Language Learners
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: a kind of small insect that lives in an organized social group
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Definition of -ant for English Language Learners
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: a person or thing that does a specified thing
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Definition of -ant for English Language Learners
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: doing a specified thing or behaving in a specified way
ANT Defined for Kids
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Definition of ant for Students
:a small insect related to the bees and wasps that lives in colonies and forms nests in the ground or in wood in which it stores food and raises its young
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