| ADJECTIVE | all | insectivorous | (of animals and plants) feeding on insects |
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| Sounds | ihnsehktih'verahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | (of animals and plants) feeding on insects. | |
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| Category | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna | A living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
| plant, flora, plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | |
| Narrower | apivorous | feeding on bees |
| myrmecophagous | feeding on ants | |
| Opposite | carnivorous | (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals |
| herbivorous | feeding only on plants | |
| omnivorous | feeding on both plants and animals | |
| Spanish | insectívoro | |
| Catalan | insectívor | |
| Nouns | insectivore | small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial / terrestrial or fossorial mammals |
| insectivore | any organism that feeds mainly on insects | |
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