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Definitions of insectivore in various dictionaries:
noun - small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
noun - any organism that feeds mainly on insects
Any of various small, principally nocturnal mammals of the order Insectivora, characteristically feeding chiefly on insects and including the shrews, moles, and hedgehogs.
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| It's any plant or animal that feeds mainly on bugs |
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| an animal that eats only insects |
| An animal that feeds on insects, worms, and other invertebrates. |
| Any of various small, principally nocturnal mammals of the order Insectivora, characteristically feeding chiefly on insects and including the shrews, moles, and hedgehogs. |
| An organism that feeds mainly on insects. |
| any organism that feeds mainly on insects |
| small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals |
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An insectivore is a carnivorous plant or animal that eats insects. An alternative term is entomophage, which also refers to the human practice of eating insects. * The first insectivorous vertebrates were amphibians. When they evolved 400 million years ago, the first amphibians were piscivores, with numerous sharp conical teeth, much like a modern crocodile. The same tooth arrangement is however also suited for eating animals with exoskeletons, thus the ability to eat insects is an extension of piscivory.At one time, insectivorous mammals were scientifically classified in an order called Insectivora. This order is now abandoned, as not all insectivorous mammals are closely related. Most of the Insectivora taxa have been reclassified; those that have not yet been reclassified remain in the order Eulipotyphla. * Although individually small, insects exist in enormous numbers - they number over a million described species and some of those species occur in enormous numbers. Accordingly, insec |