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1. (n.) ant
any of numerous hymenopterous insects of the widespread family Formicidae, that live in highly organized colonies containing wingless female workers of various castes, a winged queen, and during the breeding season winged males.
2. ant
Slang. to be impatient or eager to act.
Etymology: (bef. 1000; OE æmacr;mette, c. MLG āmete, ēm(e)te, OHG āmeiza (ā-a -3+ a n. der. of meizan to beat, cut). Cf. emmet , mite1)
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1. (noun) ant, emmet, pismire
social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
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1. (noun) ant
a small black insect
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1. (noun) ANT
a hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire
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Sense: a type of small insect, related to bees, wasps etc, thought of as hard-working.
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 Afrikaans: mier |
 Arabic: نَمْلَه |
 Bulgarian: мравка |
 Brazilian: formiga |
 Czech: mravenec |
 German: die Ameise |
 Danish: myre |
 Greek: μυρμήγκι |
 Spanish: hormiga |
 Estonian: sipelgas |
 Farsi: مورچه |
 Finnish: muurahainen |
 French: fourmi |
 Hebrew: נְמָלָה |
 Hindi: चींटी |
 Croatian: mrav |
 Hungarian: hangya |
 Indonesian: semut |
 Icelandic: maur |
 Italian: formica |
 Japanese: あり |
 Korean: 개미 |
 Lithuanian: skruzdėlė |
 Latvian: skudra |
 Malay: semut |
 Dutch: mier |
 Norwegian: maur |
 Polish: mrówka |
 Persian: مورچه |
 Pashto: میږتون |
 Portuguese: formiga |
 Romanian: furnică |
 Russian: муравей |
 Slovak: mravec |
 Slovenian: mravlja |
 Serbian: mrav |
 Swedish: myra |
 Thai: มด |
 Turkish: karınca |
 Taiwanese: 螞蟻 |
 Ukrainian: мурашка |
 Urdu: چیونٹی ، کیڑی |
 Vietnamese: con kiến |
 Chinese: 蚂蚁 |
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