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Legionary ant is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LEGIONARY ANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

legionary ant

Army ant

The name army ant is applied to over 200 ant species, in different lineages, due to their aggressive predatory foraging groups, known as "raids", in which huge numbers of ants forage simultaneously over a certain area. Another shared feature is that, unlike most ant species, army ants do not construct permanent nests; an army ant colony moves almost incessantly over the time it exists. All species are members of the true ant family, Formicidae, but several groups have independently evolved the same basic behavioral and ecological syndrome. This syndrome is often referred to as "legionary behavior", and is an example of convergent evolution. Most New World army ants belong to the subfamily Ecitoninae, which contains two tribes: Cheliomyrmecini and Ecitonini. The former only contains the genus Cheliomyrmex, whereas the latter contains four genera: Neivamyrmex, Nomamyrmex, Labidus, and Eciton. The largest genus is Neivamyrmex, which contains more than 120 species; the most predominant species is Eciton burchellii; its common name "army ant" is considered to be the archetype of the species.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LEGIONARY ANT

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Legion of Honour
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legionnaire´s disease
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WORDS THAT END LIKE LEGIONARY ANT

amazon ant
army ant
bull ant
bulldog ant
driver ant
fire ant
leafcutter ant
Pharaoh ant
Pharaoh´s ant
slave ant
soldier ant
velvet ant
white ant
wood ant
worker ant

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Translator English - Chinese

蚂蚁军团
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hormiga legionaria
570 millions of speakers

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legionary ant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लीजन के फ़ौज चींटी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نملة بله
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

легионер муравей
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

formiga legionário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লাওস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fourmi légionnaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Semut legionari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Legionär Ameise
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

軍団アリ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

군단병 개미
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Semut legiun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kiến lính lê dương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மரபணு எறும்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पौर्णिक मुंगी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Lejyoner karınca
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

formica legionario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

legionista mrówka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

легіонер мураха
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

furnică legionar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λεγεωνάριος μυρμήγκι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

legio mier
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

legionary ant
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

legionary maur
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEGIONARY ANT»

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The Farmers' Register
Connected with the subject of the warfare of ants ie the history of a species of this insect, not existing in these islands, called, by Huber, the Amazon, or Legionary Ant, Formica rttfesctns ol Latreille. It is both warlike and powerful, and, unlike the  ...
Edmund Ruffin, 1837
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The Ants
It should be added here, in order to clarify the vernacular nomenclature, that there has been a tendency by modern authors to use the terms "army ant" and " legionary ant" interchangeably. For these investigators, "legionary ant" refers first to ...
Bert Hölldobler, 1990
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Insect Bioecology and Nutrition for Integrated Pest Management
10.3.6 Legionary Ants The exclusively neotropical ant species of the Ecitoninae subfamily shows a combination of interrelated behavioral and morphological traits referred to as the legionary ant adaptive syndrome (Gotwald 1995; Brady 2003) ...
Antônio Ricardo Panizzi, José R. P. Parra, 2012
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Harper's miscellany for young persons
And now for the legionary ant. This is a fighting arit, as well as the last I mentioned ; and it actually steals the young of another kind, rears them, and puts all the work on them, so as to be idle itself. This curious fact was first found out 1 by Mr.
Harper, 1834
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Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006
These diagnostic features can perhaps be most conveniently distinguished under the concepts of "nomad- 1 There has been a tendency in some recent literature to use the terms "army ant" and "legionary ant" interchangeably. According to ...
Edward O. Wilson, 2006
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The Farmers' Register: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to the ...
Connected with the subject of the warfare ofj ants is the history of a species of this insect, not existing in these islands, called, by Huber, the Amazon, or Legionary Ant, Formica rufexcens o( Latreille. It is both warlike and powerful, and, unlike ...
‎1837
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Farmers' Register
... hours ol" repose, and its season lor enjoyment ; its serious duties, and its with the subject of (lie warfare of] is the history of a species of this insect, not in these islands, called, by lluber, the n, or Legionary Ant, Formica rufescens ol Latreille.
‎1837
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A Bibliography of Ant Systematics
30:273-321. [1943.10.22] Smith, M. R. 1943f. A new male legionary ant from the Mojave Desert, California. Lloydia 6:196- 197. [1943.11.10] Smith, M. R. 1944a. Ants of the genus Cardiocondyla Emery in the United States. Proc. Entomol. Soc.
Philip S. Ward, 1996
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The natural history of insects
Connected with the subject of the warfare of ants, is the history of a species of this insect, not existing in these islands, called, by Huber, the Amazon, or Legionary Ant, the Formica rufescens of Latreille. It is both warlike and powerful, and, ...
James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood, 1829
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Canopy
The legionary ant crawled under a dry trattinicleia leaf. It remained hidden for a moment from possible predators, while evaluating what direction to take, using its distinct sense of orientation. With no apparent motive, the ant moved to the ...
Michael Fancello, 2002

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