siafu
- noun
- /siˈɑːfu/
- South African
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siafu
- While hiking in Africa, we saw a massive army of siafu moving quickly across the ground.
Examples
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He imagined the Jims clearly, their damp bodies prone in their sleeping bags, exhaling booze and hashish, tiny siafu biting their faces.
Fiction book (2001) -
For example, Cory documented the "warrior of the siafu ant" as a shingila used in substances for a safe journey, where "the medicine will protect the traveler as the warrior fire ants protect the worker ants" (ibid., p. 18).
Academic text (2009) -
Siafu.
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From his cot, he heard siafu feasting on the big men and heard them clawing themselves in their sleeping bags.
Fiction book (2001) -
The siafu ants marched in a long line, their powerful bites making them feared by many.
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She warned her friends about the danger of stepping on a siafu, as their bites can be quite painful.
Synonyms
1
9.1
A large tropical ant that moves in long lines and hunts other insects
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6.4
A tropical ant that moves in large groups and hunts other insects
A tropical ant that moves in large swarms to hunt other insects
How Aggressive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Siafu comes from Swahili, where people use it for the fierce driver or 'army' ants that move in long columns. So, in English siafu means a large, aggressive African ant that travels in massive groups and has a strong bite.