Definition of insectivorae Insectivorae
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What does insectivorae mean?
Part of speech
🔤- insectivorae, noun, plural of insectivora.
WordNet
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| insectivora - shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs | ||
| order Insectivora | ||
| animal order the order of animals | ||
| eutheria, subclass eutheria all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | ||
| lipotyphla, suborder lipotyphla moles; hedgehogs; true shrews | ||
| menotyphla, suborder menotyphla elephant shrews; tree shrews | ||
| insectivore any organism that feeds mainly on insects | ||
| family talpidae, talpidae moles | ||
| chrysochloridae, family chrysochloridae golden moles | ||
| family soricidae, soricidae shrews | ||
| erinaceidae, family erinaceidae true hedgehogs | ||
| family tenrecidae, tenrecidae tenrecs and extinct related forms | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- insectivora (n. pl.)
An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. - insectivora (n. pl.)
A division of the Cheiroptera, including the common or insect-eating bats.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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insectivora
in-sek-tiv′or-a, n. an order of mammals, mostly terrestrial, nocturnal in habit, and small in size—shrews, moles, hedgehogs, &c.—adj. Insectiv′orous, living on insects. [L. insectum, an insect, vorāre, to devour.]
Wikipedia 
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The name insectivora (insect eater) has reference to the food habits of the group as a whole. Although moles and shrews are not all strictly insectivorous, insects and other small animal life constitute the chief dietary items of most members of the group. Some kinds, the otter shrews of Africa and the star-nosed mole of America, for example, feed also upon fish. The Townsend mole of the Pacific Northwest often is a nuisance to bulb growers because of its fondness for the bulbs of many kinds of plants.
Moles, as a group, are subterranean in habit and spend most of their lives in the darkness of underground tunnels which they usually excavate for themselves. Correlated with this fossorial habit, the eyes of all moles are very small, in some species actually not opening to the outside, and of little value to them. On the other hand, their senses of touch and smell are highly developed.
Classification.
One species of mole and four species of shrews occur in Texas.
Part of speech
🔤- insectivora, noun, singular of insectivoras / insectivorae.
