Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fungus-growing ant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables: fun-gus--grow-ing ant
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any ant of the tribe Attini, which grow fungi in their ant colonies using food scraps, the fungi are then used to feed the colony.

Example Sentences

"Fungus-growing ants (Attini) are in reality unique fungus-culturing insects."
"The fungus-growing ants are a New World group of > 200 species, all obligate symbionts with a fungus they use for food."

Etymology

From fungus + growing + ant.

Inflected Forms

fungus-growing ants (plural)

Questions

What does fungus-growing ant mean?: Any ant of the tribe Attini, which grow fungi in their ant colonies using food scraps, the fungi are then used to feed the colony.
Where does fungus-growing ant come from?: From fungus + growing + ant.

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