Insectivora
The
order Insectivora (from
Latin insectum "insect" and vorare "to eat") is a now-abandoned biological grouping within the class of
mammals.In the past, the grouping was used as a scrapbasket for a variety of small to very small, relatively unspecialised, insectivorous mammals. Since any primitive-looking fossil groups of
placental mammals were commonly assigned to this order for convenience, it was held to constitute the basal stock out of which other placental orders had evolved. At its widest extent, therefore, the order Insectivora was
polyphyletic and cannot be considered a
clade.
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Insectivora
Noun
1. shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs
(synonym) order Insectivora
(hypernym) animal order
(member-holonym) Eutheria, subclass Eutheria
(member-meronym) Lipotyphla, suborder Lipotyphla
insectívoro
adj.
insectivorous, insect eating (of a plant or animal)
Insectivora
(n. pl.)
An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects.
(n. pl.)
A division of the Cheiroptera, including the common or insect-eating bats.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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