ant tree

noun

ant tree

noun

1

A tree species that is myrmecophytic; a tree inhabited by ants.

One cannot read this account without recalling to mind the ant-tree of Guiana, described by Sir Robert Schomburg, and questioning whether the tree here referred to is not naturally hollow[.]1846, Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, volume X, page 14:

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