A carnivorous Australian ant, especially a large reddish-purple kind that builds mounds.
肉蚂蚁
Genus Iridomyrmex, family Formicidae: several species
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Huge nests of meat ants, five to ten meters across and seething with hundreds of thousands of big red-and-black workers, dominated the more disturbed swaths of open terrain.