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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ANT-LION

ANT-LION Ant "-li `on, n. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius.