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Definition of Insectivore
1. Noun. Small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals.
Group relationships: Insectivora, Order Insectivora
Specialized synonyms: Mole, Shrew, Shrewmouse, Erinaceus Europaeus, Erinaceus Europeaeus, Hedgehog, Tendrac, Tenrec, Otter Shrew, Potamogale, Potamogale Velox
Derivative terms: Insectivorous
2. Noun. Any organism that feeds mainly on insects.
Derivative terms: Insectivorous
Definition of Insectivore
1. n. One of the Insectivora.
Definition of Insectivore
1. Noun. Insect-eating animal or plant. ¹
2. Noun. (dated) mammal of the now abondaned order Insectivora. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insectivore
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Medical Definition of Insectivore
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Origin: F.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insectivore
Literary usage of Insectivore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Mammalian Descent; the Hunterian Lectures for 1884: Being Nine Lectures by William Kitchen Parker, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1885)
"... she could scarcely have developed a more curious and composite creature than
this long-nosed insectivore. When Prof. Huxley propounded his oft-quoted ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1919)
"The fossil mammals include one insectivore, one edentate and a number of rodents,
all new and very peculiar types, widely different from any known animals; ..."
3. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"... and insectivore resemblances, are also more nearly related with the Metatheria.
The primitive Marsupial skull on the whole approaches the ..."
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