PISMIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pismire mean? 

• PISMIRE (noun)
  The noun PISMIRE has 1 sense:

1. social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

  Familiarity information: PISMIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PISMIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ant; emmet; pismire

Hypernyms ("pismire" is a kind of...):

hymenopter; hymenopteran; hymenopteron; hymenopterous insect (insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pismire"):

Monomorium pharaonis; pharaoh's ant; pharaoh ant (small red ant of warm regions; a common household pest)

little black ant; Monomorium minimum (tiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for food)

army ant; driver ant; legionary ant (tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects)

carpenter ant (ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs)

fire ant (omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting)

Formica rufa; wood ant (reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands)

slave ant (any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species)

slave-maker; slave-making ant (an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants)

bulldog ant (any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia)

Holonyms ("pismire" is a member of...):

family Formicidae; Formicidae (ants)