Insectivorous
adjective
Eating or living on insects.
Bats are an example of an insectivorous animal.
Often appears as...
- insectivorous bird
- insectivorous plant
adjective
Eating or living on insects.
Bats are an example of an insectivorous animal.
Often appears as...
- insectivorous bird
- insectivorous plant
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Pro Tip 1/3Natural Context
Used to describe animals or plants in their natural relationship with insects as a food source.
The Venus flytrap is a well-known insectivorous plant.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Human Diet
While it signifies eating insects, it's not commonly used to describe human diets, even if someone eats insects.
He eats crickets for protein, but we wouldn't call him insectivorous.
Pro Tip 3/3Scientific Term
Often used in scientific or educational contexts when discussing the diets of certain species.
In class we learned that aardvarks are insectivorous mammals.
Compare with
carnivorouspredatory
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Discovering Rare Bat...
our unknown uh-huh there are more molasses using these techniques the millers have completely reassessed the numbers and habits of many bat species in the forest there is now hard evidence about small insectivorous bats which because of
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The 5 Musketeers Have an...
off oh he splashed down he's back had a little drink there we were chatting yesterday when we saw the woodland about the bean insectivorous and I forgot to mention that I've also seen them catching small lizards and eating them I
Video examples
Discovering Rare Bat...
our unknown uh-huh there are more molasses using these techniques the millers have completely reassessed the numbers and habits of many bat species in the forest there is now hard evidence about small insectivorous bats which because of
Video examples
The 5 Musketeers Have an...
off oh he splashed down he's back had a little drink there we were chatting yesterday when we saw the woodland about the bean insectivorous and I forgot to mention that I've also seen them catching small lizards and eating them I
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