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Plant that affords shelter or food to ants that live in symbiotic relations with it
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myrmecophyte
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Myrmecophyte \Myr"me*co*phyte`\, n. [Gr. my`rmhx, my`rmhkos, ant + fyto`n plant.] (Bot.) A plant that affords shelter and food to certain species of ants which live in symbiotic relations with it. Special adaptations for this purpose exist; thus, Acacia ...
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n. plant that affords shelter or food to ants that live in symbiotic relations with it
Wiktionary
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n. A plant that lives in association with a colony of ants. The degree of association varies and is assumed to be symbiotic in some cases.
Wikipedia
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Myrmecophyte (mər′mek•ə‚fīt; literally "ant-plant") is a plant that lives in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants . There are over 100 different genera of myrmecophytes. These plants possess structural adaptations that provide ants with food ...