Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ant mill

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: an-t mill
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A phenomenon where a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle and eventually dying of exhaustion.

Inflected Forms

ant mills (plural)

Synonyms

death spiral

Questions

What does ant mill mean?: A phenomenon where a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle and eventually dying of exhaustion.

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