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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