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- noun Plural form of
ant .
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Examples
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_white ants_ or termites (which are ants only by a misnomer).
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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But a colony of a million army ants is a sophisticated "super-organism."
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The relationship between female ants is determined by the habits of the queen, in particular, how many mates she takes.
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The greatest danger faced by the ants is not that the workers are going to conquer them, as in science fiction stories.
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The ability to control ants is well .. u could almost just say tony stark invented a way to do it and added it to his suit - there is no need to have a hero in the line up with that ability cuase well there is only ever so much u can do with the ant man.
Did Jon Favreau Just Reveal The Avengers Line-Up? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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We are dealing with degrees when we are speaking of intelligent the ants from the other thread are intelligent but not to the same degree as the musical genius Sting plan (verb) to create a representation of conditions that do not exist in the world that can be used to find a solution to a problem without actually implementing trial-and-error in the world.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Anyway, a natural way to get rid of ants is to spread cornmeal around their trails.
ants are eating my vaginal discharge. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2008
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I thought this might be an omen of some disaster, but instead it was treated with delight by the children, who plucked the ants from the air, stripped off the wings and ate them, as if that was the most natural thing in the world to do.
I hope the building doesn’t catch fire today… : Bev Vincent 2008
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Most of you already know that the proper collective term for ants is a * colony*.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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The dancing on display looks like a woman with panties infested with fire ants is attempting to flag down a taxi.
"A Good Argument" 2006
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