Meaning of inchman | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia.

Australia, Tasmania

Examples

“We sit under the eaves to eat, or on stumps in the grass (there are “inchmen” about, giant lumbering bull ants).”

“They would walk many miles along Ocean Beach and they would eat the fleshy leaves of the plant they called pigface and she called dead men's fingers, would rub the bite of jack-jumpers and the inchmen with the pulpy flesh.”

“Outside in the yard we had fierce orange bull ants whose bite was like a red-hot needle; and, for a season, two nests of the dreaded inchmen.”

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