ant tree
English
Noun
ant tree (plural ant trees)
- A tree species that is myrmecophytic; a tree inhabited by ants.
- 1846, Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, volume X, page 14:
- One cannot read this account without recalling to mind the ant-tree of Guiana, described by Sir Robert Schomburg, and questioning whether the tree here referred to is not naturally hollow[.]