agricultural ant

noun

1. harvester ant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of agricultural ant¹

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Example Sentences

J. B. Lippincott Company for the pictures from Beard's "American Boy's Book of Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles" on page 229; McCook's "Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas" on pages 206 and 213.

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It is called the Pogonomyrmex barbatus, or, on account of its customs, the Agricultural Ant.

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I wish I had time to tell you about the agricultural ant of Texas, and the umbrella ants of Florida, who cut bits of leaf from the orange-trees and march home with them in procession, holding each leaf in an upright position.

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One would see how important or unimportant portent in the cosmos was the agricultural ant's dream of three millimetres and an aphis compared with the aspirations of the English labourer.

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