1) Flora 2) Plant 3) Plant life 
Myrmecophyte (mər′mek•ə‚fīt; literally `ant-plant`) is a plant that lives in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants. There are over 100 different genera of myrmecophytes. These plants possess structural adaptations that provide ants with food and/or shelter. These specialized structures include domatia, food bodies, and extrafl.....
• (n.) A plant that affords shelter and food to certain species of ants which live in symbiotic relations with it. Special adaptations for this purpose exist; thus, Acacia spadicigera has large hollows thorns, and species of Cecropia have stem cavities.
Myr'me·co·phyte` noun [ Greek 
[n] - plant that affords shelter or food to ants that live in symbiotic relations with it
myrmecophyte, myrmecophytism A plant that has specialized structures for sheltering ants or termites, or having a mutual interdependence with ants or termites.
noun plant that affords shelter or food to ants that live in symbiotic relations with it