meat ant

English

Etymology

Named after its habit of stripping the meat off dead vertebrates.

Noun

meat ant (plural meat ants)

  1. Iridomyrmex purpureus, a carnivorous ant endemic to Australia.
    Synonyms: gravel ant, mound ant, red ant, southern meat ant
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