Defenition of the word insectivore
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Defenition of the word insectivore
- (Insectivora) Order of placental mammals, being typically small, with simple teeth, and feeding on invertebrates.
- An animal with a diet that consists chiefly of insects and similar small creatures.
- any organism that feeds mainly on insects
- small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
Meronymys for the word insectivore
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- Insectivora
- order Insectivora
Hyponyms for the word insectivore
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- Erinaceus europaeus
- Erinaceus europeaeus
- hedgehog
- mole
- otter shrew
- potamogale
- Potamogale velox
- shrew
- shrewmouse
- tendrac
- tenrec
Hypernyms for the word insectivore
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- animal
- animate being
- beast
- brute
- creature
- eutherian
- eutherian mammal
- fauna
- placental
- placental mammal
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