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Antlion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various species of insects, many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae. The adults superficially resemble the unrelated damselflies. The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants.
  2. 2
    winged insect resembling a dragonfly; the larvae (doodlebugs) dig conical pits where they wait to catch e.g. ants wordnet
  3. 3
    the larva of any of several insects wordnet

Etymology

From ant + lion. Compare translingual Myrmeleon.

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