Crossword-Solution: ECITONS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Foraging ants. 1 answer
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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The Saüba is a vegetable feeder, and does not attack other animals; the accounts that have been published regarding carnivorous ants which hunt in vast armies, exciting terror wherever they go, apply only to the Ecitons, or foraging ants, a totally different group of this tribe of insects.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons Henry Walter Bates 2000
The Ecitons are called Tauóca by the Indians, who are always on the look-out for their armies when they traverse the forest, so as to avoid being attacked.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons Henry Walter Bates 2000
The Ecitons resemble, in their habits, the Driver ants of Tropical Africa; but they have no close relationship with them in structure, and indeed belong to quite another sub-group of the ant-tribe.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons Henry Walter Bates 2000
Like many other ants, the communities of Ecitons are composed, besides males and females, of two classes of workers, a large-headed (worker-major) and a small-headed (worker-minor) class; the large-heads have, in some species, greatly lengthened jaws, the small-heads have jaws always of the ordinary shape; but the two classes are not sharply-defined in structure and function, except in two of the species.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons Henry Walter Bates 2000
All the Ecitons hunt in large organised bodies; but almost every species has its own special manner of hunting.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons Henry Walter Bates 2000
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1942).