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dulosis, slavery (s) (noun) (no pl)
The relation in which workers of a parasitic (dulotic) ant species raid the nests of another species, capture brood (usually in the form of pupae), and rear them as enslaved nest mates: In entomology, dulosis takes place when parasitic ants steal pupae from the nests of another ant species and raise them in their own colony and have them do work. This is a kind of slavery.
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