a. rare. [ad. L. formīcīnus, f. formīca ant: see -INE.] Of, or of the nature of, ants.
1885. H. O. Forbes, Nat. Wand. E. Archip., 31. Every trading vessel in the tropics has its formicine fauna, and cannot help acting as a transporter of all sorts of ants from one region of it to another.
