English > insectivore: 2 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial / terrestrial or fossorial mammals. |
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| Member of | Insectivora, order Insectivora | shrews |
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| Narrower | hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus | small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines |
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| mole | small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet |
| otter shrew, potamogale, Potamogale velox | amphibious African insectivorous mammal that resembles an otter |
| shrew, shrewmouse | small mouselike mammal with a long snout |
| tenrec, tendrac | small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar / Madagascar |
| Broader | placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal | mammals having a placenta |
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| Spanish | insectívoro |
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| Catalan | insectívor |
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| Adjectives | insectivorous | (of animals and plants) feeding on insects |
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