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insectivore

[ UK /ˌɪnsˈɛktɪvˌɔː/ ]
NOUN
  1. small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
  2. any organism that feeds mainly on insects

How To Use insectivore In A Sentence

  • These active insectivores are usually pretty small, roughly 5.5 inches in length, give or take a half-inch.
  • Omnivores and insectivores exhibit different fuel-use strategies to overcome the physiological challenges of migration.
  • Humans evolved from insectivore, like most of the primates, to scavenger to hunter and the more meat we ate, the larger and bigger our brains and our bodies got. Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part I | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • It seems, however, that insectivores and fruit-eating omnivores exhibit different migration strategies, each with an associated suite of morphological and behavioral adaptations to overcome the physical challenges of migration.
  • Aside from the obvious connotation of a burrowing insectivore, a mole could also mean a small congenital growth on the human skin, usually slightly raised and dark and sometimes hairy.
  • Woodcreepers live primarily in lowland tropical forests and are mainly insectivores.
  • Insectivores are fairly common because insects are very common but the small size and low nutrient value of insects means that most insectivorous mammals are small, except the anteaters.
  • The narrow-faced insectivore entrepreneur blinked. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • Without the immense diversity of fruits, wrote Loren Eiseley in The Immense Journey, “man might still be a nocturnal insectivore gnawing a roach in the dark.” The Fruit Hunters
  • Insectivore molars from category 5 predator assemblages are even more dramatically digested.
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