Usually means: Eats insects as primary diet.
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  1. insectivorous: Merriam-Webster
  2. insectivorous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insectivorous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insectivorous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insectivorous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insectivorous, insectivorous: Wordnik
  7. insectivorous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insectivorous: Wiktionary
  9. insectivorous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insectivorous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. insectivorous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. insectivorous: Dictionary.com
  13. Insectivorous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Insectivorous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. insectivorous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. insectivorous: Rhymezone
  17. Insectivorous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. insectivorous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. insectivorous: FreeDictionary.org
  20. insectivorous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. insectivorous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. insectivorous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. insectivorous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. insectivorous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Insectivorous: MedFriendly Glossary
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  4. insectivorous: Medical dictionary

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  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
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  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. insectivorous: Evolution Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (insectivorous)

▸ adjective:  Feeding on insects.
▸ adjective:  (of a plant) Capable of trapping and absorbing insects; such as the sundew, pitcher plant and Venus flytrap.

Similar:
apivorous, myrmecophagous, entomophagous, insectivorian, vermivorous, formicivorous, xylophagous, ornithivorous, gumnivorous, anteating, more...

Opposite:
herbivorous, carnivorous, omnivorous

Types:
shrew, mole, hedgehog, platypus, anteater, armadillo, sloth, opossum, more...

Phrases:
insectivorous plants, insectivorous bat, insectivorous plant, small insectivorous mammal, more...



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Similar:
apivorous, myrmecophagous, entomophagous, insectivorian, vermivorous, formicivorous, xylophagous, ornithivorous, gumnivorous, anteating, more...

Opposite:
herbivorous, carnivorous, omnivorous

Types:
shrew, mole, hedgehog, platypus, anteater, armadillo, sloth, opossum, more...

Phrases:
insectivorous plants, insectivorous bat, insectivorous plant, small insectivorous mammal, more...



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