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ant

noun as in bug

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noun as in vermin

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One bedroom previously had an ant infestation and was closed immediately.

From BBC

There wasn’t a single bite I didn’t enjoy, from the baby corn with ant larvae to the mole Chef Olvera is known for.

From Salon

In time Ricardo's dominance was challenged and overturned by William Whewell and Richard Jones, who had a very different understanding of science, captured by Francis Bacon's analogy of the ant, the spider and the bee.

From Salon

In two back-to-back papers published in the journal Ecology, the Kobe University team published that B. subcupularis is pollinated by ants and camel crickets, which visit the plants for their pollen and nectar.

Most ants have two morphologically differentiated adult castes -- queens and workers -- each irreversibly specialized for either reproduction or nonreproductive altruism such as foraging, defense and care of maternal brood.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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