ant

/ant/US // ænt //UK // (ænt) //

蚂蚁,蚁族,前者,反之亦然

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of numerous black, red, brown, or yellow social insects of the family Formicidae, of worldwide distribution especially in warm climates, having a large head with inner jaws for chewing and outer jaws for carrying and digging, and living in highly organized colonies containing wingless female workers, a winged queen, and, during breeding seasons, winged males, some species being noted for engaging in warfare, slavemaking, or the cultivation of food sources.

as ininsect

Synonyms

The most cooperative organisms like ants, bees, termites—or, if you want to compare mammals to mammals, the beautiful naked mole rats—aren’t renowned for their brilliance.
So the ants evolved to leave the ancestral germline as a “decoy” to attract the bacteria, Rajakumar said.
In exchange, the carpenter ants provide a protective cellular environment for the Blochmannia and transmit them to their offspring, ensuring the bacteria’s survival.
Yet while the cows’ bacteria merely inhabit the animals’ stomach, the bacteria in the ants live inside their gut cells as endosymbionts.
Bullet ant stings, he finds, are roughly 10 times more painful.
An Uber driver went on an anti-gay, ant-American rant before physically assaulting his passenger.
I was reducing everything to ant scale, the U.S. included—an ant White House, an ant CIA, an ant Congress, an ant Pentagon.
Strangely, he did this by diluting the sting of the ant scene.
In the U.S. view a small group—or cadre—of fierce red ants have taken power and are opposing the black-ant majority.
RAMON: (Seething with contempt) Secret ant landing strips, illegally established on foreign soil.
Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.

/ant/US // ænt //UK // (ænt) //

蚂蚁,蚁族,前者,反之亦然

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of numerous black, red, brown, or yellow social insects of the family Formicidae, of worldwide distribution especially in warm climates, having a large head with inner jaws for chewing and outer jaws for carrying and digging, and living in highly organized colonies containing wingless female workers, a winged queen, and, during breeding seasons, winged males, some species being noted for engaging in warfare, slavemaking, or the cultivation of food sources.

as ininsect

Synonyms

The most cooperative organisms like ants, bees, termites—or, if you want to compare mammals to mammals, the beautiful naked mole rats—aren’t renowned for their brilliance.
So the ants evolved to leave the ancestral germline as a “decoy” to attract the bacteria, Rajakumar said.
In exchange, the carpenter ants provide a protective cellular environment for the Blochmannia and transmit them to their offspring, ensuring the bacteria’s survival.
Yet while the cows’ bacteria merely inhabit the animals’ stomach, the bacteria in the ants live inside their gut cells as endosymbionts.
Bullet ant stings, he finds, are roughly 10 times more painful.
An Uber driver went on an anti-gay, ant-American rant before physically assaulting his passenger.
I was reducing everything to ant scale, the U.S. included—an ant White House, an ant CIA, an ant Congress, an ant Pentagon.
Strangely, he did this by diluting the sting of the ant scene.
In the U.S. view a small group—or cadre—of fierce red ants have taken power and are opposing the black-ant majority.
RAMON: (Seething with contempt) Secret ant landing strips, illegally established on foreign soil.
Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.