Ant-cattle: Definition and part of speech

Ant-cattle

  1. n. Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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