honey ant

honey ant ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. any of several ants, especially of the genus Myrmecocystus, that feed on honeydew or nectar and store the excess juices in the bodies of certain worker ants.

Origin of honey ant First recorded in 1865–70 Examples from the Web for honey ant Historical Examples of honey ant

The honey-ant is herself a storehouse of food in case of famine.

Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No. 3, March 1899

Various

It will be enough to glance at the commencement of the ritual of the honey-ant totemites.

Anthropology

Robert Marett

Two species which are now attached to the honey-ant were formerly honey-ants, etc.

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Emile Durkheim