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Ant- Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Anti-, prefix.

Ant-bear [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A quadruped that feeds upon ants. This animal has no teeth, but a snout or muzzle, with a long cylindrical tongue. the body is covered with long hair. There are several species, constituting the genus, myrmecophaga, ant eaters.

Ant-bear [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.

Ant-cattle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

Ant-eater [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A quadruped that feeds upon ants. This animal has no teeth, but a snout or muzzle, with a long cylindrical tongue. the body is covered with long hair. There are several species, constituting the genus, myrmecophaga, ant eaters.

Ant-eater [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

Ant-eggs [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Little white balls found in the hillocks of ants, usually supposed to be their eggs, but found on examination to be the young brood, in their first state. They are vermicules, wrapped in a film, composed of a silky substance spun like a spider's web.

Ant-hill [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A little tumulus or hillock, formed by ants, for their habitation.

Ant-hill [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.

Ant-lion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius.