bull ant en · NOUN
Meanings
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Myrmecia brevinoda
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.
2010, Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy: A Child's Odyssey through the 1950s, page 194:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bull ants | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (5)
wyi oeur-rong (Myrmecia brevinoda) · eo soldatformiko (Myrmecia brevinoda) · it formica bulldog (Myrmecia brevinoda) · ru мураве́й-бульдо́г (Myrmecia brevinoda) · it formica sergente (Myrmecia brevinoda)