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Množina: ants

ETYM Old Eng. ante, amete, emete, AS. aemete akin to German ameise. Related to Emmet.
(Homonym: aunt).
Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers; SYN. emmet, pismire.
Insect belonging to the family Formicidae, and to the same order (Hymenoptera) as bees and wasps. Ants are characterized by a conspicuous “waist” and elbowed antennae. About 10,000 different species are known; all are social in habit, and all construct nests of various kinds. Ants are found in all parts of the world, except the polar regions. It is estimated that there are about 10 million billion ants.
Ant behavior is complex, and serves the colony rather than the individual. Ants find their way by light patterns, gravity (special sense organs are located in the joints of their legs), and chemical trails between food areas and the nest.
Communities include workers, sterile wingless females, often all alike, although in some species large-headed “soldiers” are differentiated; fertile females, fewer in number and usually winged; and males, also winged and smaller than their consorts, with whom they leave the nest on a nuptial flight at certain times of the year. After aerialamating, the males die, and the fertilized queens lose their wings when they settle, laying eggs to found their own new colonies. The eggs hatch into wormlike larvae, which then pupate in silk cocoons before emerging as adults.
Remarkable species include army (South American) and driver (African) ants, which march nomadically in huge columns, devouring even tethered animals in their path; leaf-cutter ants, genus Atta, which use pieces of leaf to grow edible fungus in underground “gardens”; weaver ants, genus Oecophylla, which use their silk-producing larvae as living shuttles to bind the edges of leaves together to form the nest; Eurasian robber ants, Formica sanguinea, which raid the nests of another ant species, Formica fusca, for pupae, then use the adults as “slaves” when they hatch; and honey ants, in which some workers serve as distended honey stores. In some species, “warfare” is conducted. Others are pastoralists, tending herds of aphids and collecting a sweet secretion (“honeydew”) from them.
The largest ant communities known have about 3 million members. One is in the Jura mountains E of France, covering 7 sq km/2.7 sq mi and comprising 1,200 linked ant hills.

Množina: ant bears

Large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America; SYN. giant anteater, great anteater, tamanoir, Myrmecophaga jubata.

Množina: ant thrushes

A kind of antbird.

Množina: ant-flies

Množina: ant-heaps

Množina: ant-hillocks

Množina: ant-plants

Množina: antabuses

Proprietary name for disulfiram, a synthetic chemical used in the treatment of alcoholism. It produces unpleasant side effects if combined with alcohol, such as nausea, headaches, palpitations, and collapse. The “Antabuse effect” is produced coincidentally by certain antibiotics.

Curative of acidity, especially intestinal.
Acting to neutralize acid (especially in the stomach).

Množina: antacids

An agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach); SYN. gastric antacid, alkalizer.
Any substance that neutralizes stomach acid, such as sodium bicarbonate or magnesium hydroxide (“milk of magnesia”).
Antacids are weak bases, swallowed as solids or emulsions. They may be taken between meals to relieve symptoms of hyperacidity, such as pain, bloating, nausea, and “heartburn”. Excessive or prolonged need for antacids should be investigated medically.