Inchman
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Inchman is a noun meaning (Australia, chiefly Tasmania) Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia.
Meaning
(Australia, chiefly Tasmania) Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia.
Example Sentences
We sit under the eaves to eat, or on stumps in the grass (there are “inchmen” about, giant lumbering bull ants).
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.
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.
Word Forms
- inchmen
- inch-man
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include myrmecologist, macraner, kultarr, numbat, myrmecophobia, myrmecophile.
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