insectivore
n.
plant or animal which eats insects
Insectivore
An insectivore is a
carnivore with a diet that consists chiefly of
insects and similar small creatures.Although individually small, insects exist in enormous numbers and make up a very large part of the animal
biomass in almost all non-marine environments. In
Queensland pastures, for example, it is normal to have a greater total weight of
Scarabaeidae larvae under the surface than of the beef cattle grazing above it.
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insectivore
Noun
1. small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
(hypernym) placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
(hyponym) mole
(member-holonym) Insectivora, order Insectivora
2. any organism that feeds mainly on insects
(hypernym) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
insectivore
adj.
insectivorous, insect eating (of a plant or animal)
Insectivore
(n.)
One of the Insectivora.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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