Meaning of INSECTIVOROUS
| Pronunciation: | | `insek'tivurus
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [adj] (of animals and plants) feeding on insects |
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| | Synonyms: | | apivorous, myrmecophagous |
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| | Antonyms: | | carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`sec*tiv"o*rous\, a. [See {Insectivora}.]
Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is
applied:
(a) to plants which have some special adaptation for catching
and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap,
Sarracenia, etc.
(b) to the Insectivora, and to many bats, birds, and
reptiles.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Describes an animal or plant that eats insects. |
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| | Related Terms: | | cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, vegetable-eating, vegetarian |
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