"meat ant" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: meat ants [plural]
Etymology: Named after its habit of stripping the meat off dead vertebrates. Head templates: {{en-noun}} meat ant (plural meat ants)
  1. Iridomyrmex purpureus, a carnivorous ant endemic to Australia. Wikipedia link: meat ant Categories (lifeform): Ants Synonyms: gravel ant, mound ant, red ant, southern meat ant
    Sense id: en-meat_ant-en-noun-I5F42XCr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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