Usually means: Insect larva digs pit traps.
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  1. ant lion: Merriam-Webster
  2. ant lion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ant lion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ant lion: Vocabulary.com
  5. ant-lion: Wordnik
  6. ant lion: Wiktionary
  7. ant lion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. ant lion: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Ant-lion, ant-lion, ant lion: Dictionary.com
  10. Ant-lion, Ant lion (Dungeons & Dragons), Ant lion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Ant-lion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. ant-lion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. ant lion: Rhymezone
  14. Ant-lion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. ant-lion, ant lion: FreeDictionary.org
  16. ant lion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Ant-lion, ant lion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. ant lion: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ant-lion, ant lion: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Ant lion)

noun:  Alternative form of antlion [Any of various species of insects, many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae. The adults superficially resemble the unrelated damselflies. The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants.]

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