insectivoren.
/ɪnˈsɛktɪvɔː/ An insectivorous animal or plant; spec. a mammal of the order Insectivora.
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the world > animals > by eating habits > [noun] > carnivore > that feeds on insects
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora
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1863 T. H. Huxley Evid. Man's Place Nature ii. 95 The progress of cerebral complexity is traceable through a complete series of steps from the lowest Rodent or Insectivore to Man.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 65 Most of the Insectivores live under the ground.
1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life ii. xvii. 351 Ptilocercus, a feather-tailed arboreal insectivore.
1884 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 406 This remarkable insectivore [Venus's fly-trap] appears to be still a new and struggling species, or else an old type on the very point of extinction.
1896 A. G. Butler Brit. Birds with their Nests & Eggs I. 5 Many ‘insectivors’, when kept in the same aviary with seed-eating birds, swallow quantities of seed.
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