lestobiotic

English

Adjective

lestobiotic (comparative more lestobiotic, superlative most lestobiotic)

1. (uncommon) Surviving by covertly stealing food.
   • 1902, William Morton Wheeler, “The Occurrence of Formica Cinerea Mayr and Formica Rufibarbis Fabricius in America”, in The American Naturalist‎^[1], volume XXXVI, number 432, Essex Institute, page 952:

     The walls of the galleries in some of the formicaries were tenanted by teeming colonies of the minute lestobiotic, or thief ant, Solenopsis molesta Say.

   • 2003, L. Ayo Banjo, Bola Ige: the passage of a modern Cicero‎^[2], Bookcraft, →ISBN, page 95:

     His was patriotism whose cause and consequence were mutually derived from the interplay of the dynamics of micro and macro forces within the Nigerian nation-state with its lestobiotic tendencies.

   • 2009, William Penn with William Cook, chapter VIII, in Love in the Time of Flowers‎^[3], United States of America: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 498:

     Evidently adhering to a lestobiotic course throughout his criminal life, he only commits himself to petty thefts, shoplifting, lewdness and writing bad checks, with no modus operandi of violent crime to be found, and I’m sure you’ll breathe easier, ladies, as I tell you specifically he has no sex offender jacket anywhere.