Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Insectivorœ .
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- noun Plural form of
insectivore .
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Examples
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Don't forget our helpful insectivores -bats and frogs.
Green Scene: Some ideas for an environmentally friendly landscape 2011
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In rocky areas there are colonies of rock hyrax Procavia capensis and there are stable unthreatened populations of smaller mammals: burrowing rodents, insectivores and bats.
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The solar energy captured by chloroplasts in plants lies at the base of complicated food chains, in which the energy passes from plants through herbivores, which may be insects, through carnivores, which may be insects or insectivores as well as wolves and leopards, through scavengers such as vultures and dung beetles, and eventually to agents of decay such as fungi and bacteria.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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These days, the limit on terrestrial arthropods may well be ecological – they have to deal with a lot of larger insectivores.
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The solar energy captured by chloroplasts in plants lies at the base of complicated food chains, in which the energy passes from plants through herbivores, which may be insects, through carnivores, which may be insects or insectivores as well as wolves and leopards, through scavengers such as vultures and dung beetles, and eventually to agents of decay such as fungi and bacteria.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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They are insectivores, although they do eat just about anything small that moves, and will eat fruit too.
Wildlife in the garden Glenda Larke 2009
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Herbivorous mammals like horses, cattle and elephants have great millstone-like teeth for grinding cellulose, quite different from the shearing teeth of carnivores and the needly teeth of insectivores.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Herbivorous mammals like horses, cattle and elephants have great millstone-like teeth for grinding cellulose, quite different from the shearing teeth of carnivores and the needly teeth of insectivores.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Relative to the size of Palawan, the ecoregion contains a rich fauna, including several groups that are not found in the rest of the Philippines (carnivores, pangolins, porcupines, and some insectivores).
Palawan rain forests 2008
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Large insectivores such as ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) and aardvark (Orycteropus afer) feed on the numerous ants and termites found in the miombo.
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