| 单词 | insectivore |
| 释义 | insectivore (once / 20628 pages) n An insectivore is an animal that eats only or mainly insects. If chocolate-covered crickets are your thing, then go ahead and call yourself an insectivore (and good luck finding a date). A carnivore is an animal that eats other animals, and an insectivore is a more specific type of carnivore: one whose diet is mainly insects. Insectivores include many lizards, frogs, and spiders. A spider catching a bug in a web and a frog catching a fly with its tongue are two examples of insectivore behavior. Since there are millions of insects in the world, being an insectivore is a pretty good deal. WORD FAMILYinsectivore: insectivores, insectivorous USAGE EXAMPLESMost small lizards are insectivores, which often eat every day. National Geographic(Jul 22, 2016) Chickens can be as valuable as insectivores as they are for their meat or their eggs. Washington Post(Oct 27, 2015) Formally, they are an insectivore that occasionally nibbles on plants. Economist(Sep 10, 2015) 1n any organism that feeds mainly on insects Hyper animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna a living organism characterized by voluntary movement 2n small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals Hypo|Hyper mole small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet shrew, shrewmousesmall mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus, hedgehogsmall nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines tendrac, tenrecsmall often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog Potamogale velox, otter shrew, potamogaleamphibious African insectivorous mammal that resembles an otter Condylura cristata, star-nosed mole, starnose moleamphibious mole of eastern North America having pink fleshy tentacles around the nose Parascalops breweri, brewer's mole, hair-tailed molemole of eastern North America golden molemole of southern Africa having iridescent guard hairs mixed with the underfur shrew moleslender mole having a long snout and tail Sorex araneus, common shrewcommon American shrew Sorex cinereus, masked shrewcommonest shrew of moist habitats in North America Blarina brevicauda, short-tailed shrewNorth American shrew with tail less than half its body length water shrewany of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams Cryptotis parva, least shrewsmall brown shrew of grassy regions of eastern United States Tenrec ecaudatus, tailless tenrecprolific animal that feeds chiefly on earthworms eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
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