a. rare. [f. prec. + -AN.] Of or pertaining to ants.
1880. Daily Tel., 16 Nov. If the Queen-ant is removed from a nest, the formican politicians settle down soon into a steady-going Republic.
1884. G. Allen, Honey-Dew, in Longm. Mag., V. Nov., 42. Compared with these singular results of formican selection, the mere production or further development of the honey-tubes appears to be a very small matter.
