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(Australia, chiefly Tasmania) Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia..
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.
Use inchman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Inchman means (Australia, chiefly Tasmania) Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia..
Common synonyms include bull ant, bulldog ant, inch ant, jack jumper.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We sit under the eaves to eat, or on stumps in the grass (there are “inchmen” about, giant lumbering bull ants).
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