Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various small, principally nocturnal mammals of the order Insectivora, characteristically feeding chiefly on insects and including the shrews, moles, and hedgehogs.
- n. An organism that feeds mainly on insects.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An insectivorous animal; one of the Insectivora or Insectivorœ; especially, a member of the order Insectivora.
Wiktionary
- n. Insect-eating animal or plant.
- n. dated mammal of the now abondaned order Insectivora.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Insectivora.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
- n. any organism that feeds mainly on insects
Etymologies
- New Latin Īnsectivora, order name : Latin īnsectum, insect; see insect + Latin -vora, neuter pl. of -vorus, -vorous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“The narrow-faced insectivore entrepreneur blinked.”
“The highest form of insectivore left in CONUS is the spider.”
“Humans evolved from insectivore, like most of the primates, to scavenger to hunter and the more meat we ate, the larger and bigger our brains and our bodies got.”
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“Without the immense diversity of fruits, wrote Loren Eiseley in The Immense Journey, “man might still be a nocturnal insectivore gnawing a roach in the dark.””
“There are also four insectivore non-endemic species of bats (Thyroptera discifera, Myotis keaysi, Molossus bondae, and Tadarida aurispinosa) that are found in other neotropical regions excluding Venezuela.”
“There are a few primitive forms that secrete toxins—the platypus has poison spines, and an unusual insectivore on a few Caribbean islands, Solenodon, has grooved fangs and secretes a salivary toxin, and itty-bitty shrews have toxic saliva—but our class just hasn't had much natural talent for venom.”
“Although people will classify an organism as an omnivore, carnivore, herbivore insectivore WHATEVER!”
“BIOLOGYMainly an insectivore, the Arctic grayling feeds on aquatic and terrestrial insects on or near the surface in streams and in shallow areas of lakes.”
“For example, the tree shrew was changed from an “insectivore” to a “primate” to fit the current theories of primate evolution.”
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