devil's garden

English

Noun

devil's garden (plural devil's gardens)

  1. A stand of trees in the Amazon rainforest consisting almost exclusively of a single species, Duroia hirsuta, and created by lemon ants (Myrmelachista schumanni), which nest in these trees and systematically poison other plants.
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