Insectivorous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Feeding on insects.
  • adj. Botany Capable of trapping and absorbing insects, as the pitcher plant.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. feeding on insects
  • adj. capable of trapping and absorbing insects; such as the sundew, pitcher plant and Venus flytrap
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc.
  • adj. the Insectivora, and many bats, birds, and reptiles.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Feeding or subsisting on insects, as an animal or a plant.
  • Of or pertaining to the Insectivora, in any use of that name, or having their characters.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of animals and plants) feeding on insects
    • Equivalent
    apivorous    myrmecophagous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    carnivorous    herbivorous    omnivorous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    graminivorous    web-footed    insect-eating    two-horned    air-breathing   
     
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