legionary ant
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Army ant
The name army ant (or legionary ant or "Marabunta") 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, .

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legionary ant

Noun
1. tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects
(synonym) army ant, driver ant
(hypernym) ant, emmet, pismire
(member-holonym) Dorylinae, subfamily Dorylinae



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