Antrozous (antrozous)

[NL., of a sapotaceous shrub, Bumelia cuneata. ant-thrush (ant'thrush), n. 1. A South American pa erine bird, or ant-bird, of the family Formicariida, or, in a more restricted sense, of the subfamily Form i car i inæ (which see).-2. A breve; an East Indian bird of the family Pittida, having little relation with the foregoing; in the plural, the breves or pittas. See Pittida.-3. Originally, as used by the translators of Cuvier, a species of either of the fore going families, and also of others; any bird of indeterminate genus My other a Illiger. Hence the name has usually had no more exact signification than ant - bird, or ant - catcher, or ant - eater, as applied to a bird. ant-tree (ant'trē), n. A name given to species of Trip laris, a polygonaceous genus of trees of tropical America, the fistulous branches of which serve for the habitation of ants.