Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The behavioral syndrome whereby slave-making ants raid nests of other species of ants and carry off the pupae in order to provide workers for their own colony.
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- noun entomology process by which
parasitic ants stealpupae from thenests of other ants and raise them in their own nest, so that they become part of the colony and perform tasks in it.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek doulōsis, enslavement, from douloun, to enslave, from doulos, slave.]
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oroboros commented on the word dulosis
The enslavement of an ant colony or its members by ants of a different species. See dulocracy.
August 9, 2008