(entomology) 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.

plural of green tree ant

A species of arboreal tropical weaver ant, Oecophylla smaragdina, distributed from the Subcontinent through Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and northern Australia.

plural of black garden ant

plural of red imported fire ant

Solenopsis invicta, a red ant native to South America that has become a pest in numerous other regions.

simple past tense and past participle of antedate

To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time. / To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date. / (lexicography) To find earlier citational evidence for a term.

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date. / (obsolete) anticipation

Capable of being antedated.