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Insectivorous   Listen
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Insectivorous  adj.  Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied:
(a)
to Plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc.
(b)
to The Insectivora, and many bats, birds, and reptiles.






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"Insectivorous" Quotes from Famous Books



... cancrivorus) is frequently met with in Mexico. It is closely allied to the Bear family, but is much smaller and more active, and is both carnivorous and insectivorous. It climbs trees with ease, and, whenever it takes up its abode near any habitation, makes incessant raids upon poultry. It is tamed without difficulty, and will run to meet its master, and seems to value his caresses; yet, like the squirrel, which ...
— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart



Words linked to "Insectivorous" :   animal, beast, creature, plant, animate being, insectivore, flora, plant life, apivorous, brute



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