English Explanatory Dictionary

marabunta

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of army ant said to devour every living thing in its path
noun
  1. Any of several large wasps known for their painful stings:
  2. Polistes infuscatus
  3. a mud dauber or a mason wasp
  4. Synoeca surinama
  5. Polybia occidentalis and other species

Word forms

marabunta marabuntas

Etymology

From the 1954 movie The Naked Jungle, perhaps directly from the other etymology, or from a parallel South American source, though this would apparently have been the first time it was applied to ants.

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