bull ant

See also: bullant

English

Noun

bull ant (plural bull ants)

1. Myrmecia brevinoda
   • 2010, Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy: A Child's Odyssey through the 1950s‎^[1], 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)

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