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Encyclopedia > Atta (disambiguation)

Atta may refer to:

  • Atta (genus), a genus of New World ants of the subfamily Myrmicinae
  • Atta flour, whole wheat flour made from durum wheat commonly used in South Asian cooking
  • Atta biodiversity information system, [1] belonging to INBio [2] in Costa Rica
  • Attā, Pali for "self" or "soul", central to the core Buddhist concept of no-self (Anattā)
  • atta, slang term of approval meaning "That's a", as in "Atta boy!"

Species Atta cephalotes Linnaeus, 1758 Atta columbica Guérin-Ménéville, 1844 Atta insularis Guérin-Ménéville, 1845 Atta laevigata F. Smith, 1858 Atta mexicana F. Smith, 1858 Atta opaciceps Borgmeier, 1939 Atta sexdens Linnaeus (?) Atta texana Buckley, 1860 This article is about the genus of New... Atta flour is a form of wheat flour used in South Asian cooking. ... Pali may refer to: Pāli, a Middle Indo-Aryan language Pali, Rajasthan, a town and district in Rajasthan, western India Pali, a Hawaiian word, meaning cliffs Nuuanu Pali, a region on the Hawaiian island of Oahu Ballaleshwar Pali, the Ganapati temple of pali and place in Maharastra This is... The Buddhist teaching of anatta / anatman (non Self, non Soul) has, from early times, been controversial amongst Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike and remains so to this day (see, e. ...

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Wikipedia: Atta (411 words)
Atta Fabricius, 1805 is a genus of New World ants of the subfamily Myrmicinae.
Atta is one of the most spectacular of the attines, and colonies can comprise in excess of one million individuals.
Atta has evolved to constantly change foodplant, preventing a colony from completely stripping of leaves and thereby killing trees, thus avoiding negative biological feedback on account of their sheer numbers.
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