honey-pot ant

See also: honeypot ant

English

Honeypot ants at a zoo

Alternative forms

• honey pot ant
• honeypot ant

Etymology

honeypot +‎ ant From its large abdomen resembling a pot of honey, which contains a sweet substance used for colony survival.

Noun

honey-pot ant (plural honey-pot ants)

1. A type of ant from Australia, known for a class of individuals within the colony which have huge inflated amber-coloured abdomen.
2. The class of repletes, individuals of the colony which resemble honeypots.
3. An individual ant of the type
4. An individual ant of the replete class

Synonyms

• honey ant
• plerergate
• replete
• rotund

Related terms

• honeypot / honey-pot / honey pot
• honey
• pot
• ant

Translations

type of ant

• Mi'kmaq: sismo'qone'j anim
• Pitjantjatjara: tjaḻa, tjala
• Russian: медо́вый мураве́й m (medóvyj muravéj)