skull-collecting ant

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English

Etymology

skull +‎ collecting +‎ ant.

Noun

skull-collecting ant (plural skull-collecting ants)

  1. (informal, entomology) Formica archboldi, a kind of ant that hunts trap jaw ants and takes their decapitated heads back to its nest.