Insectivora

There are certain and constant characters in their formation, which bring them all under one group, called Insectivora, or Insect-eating Mammalia, by naturalists; but among them are smaller groups of individuals, with peculiar characters, adapted to their different habits.

Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals R. Lee 1865

Insectivora plucked a wriggling cockroach out of a plastic box and licked her lips.

Lynn Harris: HuffPost Exclusive! Excerpt: Death By Chick Lit 2008

Threatened and insufficiently studied species (Insectivora, Rodentia).

Biological diversity in the Caucasus 2008

Insectivora shrugged and scooped it up, bringing it hungrily toward her mouth.

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A recent addition to the cast, her name was Insectivora.

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‘Galeopithecus’, — a strange form which almost touches on the Bats, as the ‘Cheiromys’ puts on a rodent clothing, and the Lemurs simulate Insectivora.

Essays 2007

There are about fifty bats, of which less than one-fourth are Indian species; thirty-four Rodents (squirrels, rats, &c.), of which six or eight only are Indian; and ten Insectivora, with one exception peculiar to the Malay region.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The Insectivora are sometimes considered to be among the most primitive mammals surviving today, and the tenrecs to be the most primitive of the Insectivora.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The tenrec family belongs to the order Insectivora—nominally the insect eaters, though not every species confines its diet to true insects such as crickets and termites.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Rodents and four Insectivora, including a shrew-mouse and six squirrels, whose unaided passage over twenty miles of sea is even more inconceivable than that of the larger animals.

The Malay Archipelago 2004