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INSECTIVORE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any organism that feeds mainly on insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("insectivore" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Derivation:

insectivorous ((of animals and plants) feeding on insects)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("insectivore" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insectivore"):

mole (small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet)

shrew; shrewmouse (small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles)

Erinaceus europaeus; Erinaceus europeaeus; hedgehog (small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines)

tendrac; tenrec (small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog)

otter shrew; potamogale; Potamogale velox (amphibious African insectivorous mammal that resembles an otter)

Holonyms ("insectivore" is a member of...):

Insectivora; order Insectivora (shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs)

Derivation:

insectivorous ((of animals and plants) feeding on insects)

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