Usually means: Stinging ant, often in swarms.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word fire ant:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. fire ant: Merriam-Webster
  2. fire ant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fire ant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fire ant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fire ant: Vocabulary.com
  6. fire-ant: Wordnik
  7. fire ant: Wiktionary
  8. fire ant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. fire ant: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fire ant: Dictionary.com
  11. Fire Ant (wrestler), Fire ant (disambiguation), Fire ant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fire ant: Rhymezone
  13. fire ant: FreeDictionary.org
  14. fire ant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. fire ant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. fire ant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fire ant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fire ant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. fire ant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Ant, fire: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. fire ant: Medical dictionary
  4. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Ant, fire: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fire ant)

▸ noun:  Any of several red or yellow ants that can inflict a harsh sting.
▸ noun:  Solenopsis spp. (tropical fire ants)
▸ noun:  Oecophylla spp. (weaver ants), of Southeast Asia
▸ noun:  Solenopsis invicta (red imported fire ant)
▸ noun:  Wasmannia auropunctata (electric ant, little fire ant).

Similar:
red ant, bullet ant, rainbow ant, red imported fire ant, wasp, hornet, fire beetle, formicoid, formicine, black imported fire ant, more...

Opposite:
ice ant, non-fire ant, non-stinging ant

Types:
southern fire ant, tropical fire ant, black fire ant, more...

Phrases:
fire ant sting, red imported fire ant, Toxicology of red imported fire ant venom, Southern fire ant, more...

Adjectives:
ergatoid, major, buggy, minor, replete, motheaten, bugsy, wormed, insectlike, wormy, mothy

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Similar:
red ant, bullet ant, rainbow ant, red imported fire ant, wasp, hornet, fire beetle, formicoid, formicine, black imported fire ant, more...

Opposite:
ice ant, non-fire ant, non-stinging ant

Types:
southern fire ant, tropical fire ant, black fire ant, more...

Phrases:
fire ant sting, red imported fire ant, Toxicology of red imported fire ant venom, Southern fire ant, more...

Adjectives:
ergatoid, major, buggy, minor, replete, motheaten, bugsy, wormed, insectlike, wormy, mothy



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