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insectivorous
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Word definitions for insectivorous in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insectivorous \In`sec*tiv"o*rous\, a. [See Insectivora .] Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of animals and plants) feeding on insects [ant: carnivorous , herbivorous , omnivorous ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 feeding on insects 2 (context of a plant English) capable of trapping and absorbing insects; such as the sundew, pitcher plant and Venus flytrap
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s; see insect + -vorous .
Usage examples of insectivorous.
It evolved into a reptile, then a primitive mammal, then an insectivorous creature, then a presimian, then a simian, and eventually into the sapient bipedal stage, and then into modern man!
Egyptian Cirujano and his apprentices, a heap of still-bleeding black bodies was already aswarm with flies and other insects, which prey had attracted several of the small, jewel-bright, insectivorous lizards and at least one big brown toad.
And - most amazingly - even the seeds of the insectivorous pitcher plant - which traps its prey in pools of chemically laced water on leaves sporting a glissading escarpment of downward-pointing hairs and narcotic-laced nectar -even the tiny seeds of this plant trap prey by means of slime and poison, then digesting the surrounding mulch of decaying creatures as they germinate, forming into seedlings and plants.
Insects buzzed and chirped, keened and stridulated, and overhead, like some feathered projectile, an insectivorous bird dove with a piercing and protracted "keeeeee" at the edge of human hearing.