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myrmecophyte
1. A plant that lives in obligatory, mutual relationships with ants.
2. A myrmecophilous plant, or one that benefits from ant inhabitants and has special adaptations for housing them.
Word Entries at Get Words: “myrmecophyte
ant plant, myrmecophyte (s) (noun); ant plants; myrmecophytes (pl)
A species of plant with domatia, or specialized structures for housing ant colonies: Sandy learned in class that there were ant plants that gave refuge and/or nourishment to ants, and both the ants and the plants lived symbiotically with each other.
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