bull ant

See also: bullant

English

Noun

bull ant (plural bull ants)

Myrmecia brevinoda
- 2010, Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy: A Child's Odyssey through the 1950s‎, page 194:
  Occasionally I would see their innards revealed by a gang of men in Jackie Howes with jack-hammers and chinking mattocks picked^[sic] the sleepers clean of ballast like bull ants cleaning up a fish′s frame.

Translations

Myrmecia brevinoda

Esperanto: soldatformiko
Italian: formica bulldog f, formica sergente f
Russian: мураве́й-бульдо́г (ru) m (muravéj-bulʹdóg)

Anagrams

nut ball, nutball

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