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Insectivore

//ɪnˈsɛktəˌvɔː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Insect-eating animal or plant.

    "An anteater is an insectivore with a long sticky tongue to catch its prey."

  2. 2
    any organism that feeds mainly on insects wordnet
  3. 3
    mammal of the now abandoned order Insectivora. dated
  4. 4
    small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals wordnet

Etymology

From French insectivore. In the zoological sense, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French insectivore. The French terms reflect scientific New Latin origins. By surface analysis, insect + -i- + -vore.

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