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PRONUNCIATION OF SLAVE ANT

slave ant play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLAVE ANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Slave ant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLAVE ANT

slave
Slave Coast
slave cylinder
slave driver
slave labour
Slave River
slave ship
Slave State
slave trade
slave trader
slave trading
slave traffic
slave-driver
slaveholder
slaveholding
slaver
slaveringly
slavery
slavey

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLAVE ANT

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

Synonyms and antonyms of slave ant in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «slave ant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SLAVE ANT

Find out the translation of slave ant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of slave ant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «slave ant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

从蚂蚁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hormiga esclavo
570 millions of speakers

English

slave ant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गुलाम चींटी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نملة العبيد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

раб муравей
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

formiga escravo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দাসত্ব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fourmi esclave
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hantu semut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Slave- Ameise
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スレーブアリ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노예 개미
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Semut abdi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kiến nô lệ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அடிமை எறும்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुलाम चीड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Köle karınca
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ant schiavo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niewolnik mrówka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

раб мураха
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

furnică sclav
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκλάβος μυρμήγκι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slaaf mier
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slavmyra
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

slave maur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of slave ant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLAVE ANT»

The term «slave ant» is used very little and occupies the 178.486 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SLAVE ANT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about slave ant

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLAVE ANT»

Discover the use of slave ant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to slave ant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
Invertebrate Zoology, see SLAVE ANT. slave ant Invertebrate Zoology, an ant that is raised as a slave by a slave-making ant. slave antenna Electromagnetism. a directional antenna whose direction is controlled by a servosystem that receives  ...
Christopher G. Morris, 1992
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Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006
Instead an S, testaceus queen moves into the nest of a slave-ant species and lives alongside the queen of the slave species. Each queen lays eggs that develop into workers, but the S. testaceus offspring do no work. They are fed by workers ...
Edward O. Wilson, 2006
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ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR
(A) (1) A worker of the slave raider ant Polyergus rufescens (left) attacks a slave ant Formica fusca (right); (2) the slave raider carries a pupa of F. fusca homeward ; (3) a Polyergus worker is fed by a F. fusca slave ant, which has eclosed from a ...
D S Lehrman, 1978
4
The Animal Story Book (Extended Annotated Edition)
A master ant presently came along, an animated conversation took place, and the slave ant was seized upon and borne off again to bondage. The same gentleman another day observed a slave ant venture out to the entrance to the ant-hill to ...
Andrew Lang, 2012
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The Selected Works of Andrew Lang
A master ant presently came along, an animated conversation took place, and the slave ant was seized upon and borne off again to bondage. The same gentleman another day observed a slave ant venture out to the entrance to the ant-hill to ...
Andrew Lang
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The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour
The second slave ant, F. fusca, on the other hand, remains in the nest where it apparently specializes in food storage and undertakes the care of the F. wheeleri brood. The most highly developed of the formi- cine slave-makers are the Amazon ...
Rod Preston-Mafham, 1993
7
Plays
draw nearer to me, Reach me the bottle: why, thou most debauch'd slave— Ant. Pray be not angry, mistress, for with all my service And pains, I purchased this for you (I dare not drink it), For you s present; only for your pleasure; To show in little  ...
Philip Massinger, W. Gifford, 1853
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Ecology of Social Evolution
Ecology 84:1024—1031 Savolainen R, Vepsal'ainen K, Deslippe RJ (1996) Reproductive strategy of the slave ant Formica podzolica relative to raiding efficiency of enslaver species. Insectes Soc 43:201—210 Schmid-Hempel P ( 1998) ...
Judith Korb, Juergen Heinze, 2008
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Status in Classical Athens
Technically, a master was not supposed to kill his slave (Ant. 5.47), but if he did, it was unlikely that anyone would press charges.29 Nonetheless, a master who killed his own slave would still want to purify himself, since all bloodshed was ...
Deborah Kamen, 2013
10
The Plays of Philip Massinger: The city madam. The guardian. ...
draw nearer to me, Reach me the bottle : why, thou most debauch'd slave — Ant. Pray be not angry, for with all my service And pains, I purchased this for you, (I dare not drink it,) For you a present ; only for your pleasure ; To shew in little what  ...
Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar, 1813

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLAVE ANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term slave ant is used in the context of the following news items.
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The pismire strikes back — the slave ants' revenge
“I'm Spartacus.” “No, I'm Spartacus”. The spirit of the Roman-slave uprising — or perhaps of its cinematic interpreter, Kirk Douglas — lives on, albeit in miniature. «The Times, Feb 15»
2
Slave ants and their masters are locked in a deadly relationship
These so-called "dulotic" or slave-making ants specialise in robbing brood from other species. This happens during regular raiding events in which slave-making ... «Phys.Org, Feb 15»
3
Minimalistic raiding parties of a slave-hunting ant crack castles
The survival of slave ant nests is an ideal solution from the perspective of slave hunters as it provides the chance for further raids during the next years. In other ... «EurekAlert, Jan 14»
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Slave ants rebel
About the size of newspaper commas, ants in the genus Temnothorax fall prey to ... The youngsters grow up inside the acorn home of the slave-makers' queen, ... «Science News, Aug 08»

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