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๐ Ant
Also known as: Bug, Insect
Unicode: U+1F41C
Description
An ant, a small, industrious insect that lives in a colony. Depicted as a black or red ant in full profile on its six legs facing left, with a prominent abdomen and antennae. May be used to represent various insects or other bugs. Facebook’s ant is red, as was a previous Microsoft design. Google’s ant was previously blue, Facebook’s black.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
antinsect
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :ant: | |
GitHub | :ant: | |
Slack | :ant: | |
Discord | :ant: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:
A small, black ant. Created in a photorealistic style in Appleโs artwork, and cartoon style in Googleโs version. Ant was approved as part of http://emojipedia.org/ant/
Nouns:
- Insects are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body, three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae.
- A class of the Arthropoda typically having a segmented body with an external chitinous covering, a pair of compound eyes, a pair of antennae, three pairs of mouthparts, and two pairs of wings.
- An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
- Arthropod of class insecta.
- Small air-breathing arthropod
- Class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum
- Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
- The heraldic ant
- The Emmet, also called the ant and the pismire, is an heraldic charge in European heraldry, particularly in British and German heraldry.
- Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
- An ant.
- Any of the black, red, brown, or yellow insects of the family Formicidae characterized by a large head and by living in organized colonies.