autothysis
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Ancient Greek roots αὐτός (autós, “self”) and θυσία (thusía, “sacrifice”); proposed by Maschwitz and Maschwitz in 1974 to describe the defensive mechanism of the carpenter ant Camponotus saundersi.
Noun
[edit]autothysis (uncountable)