insectivorous – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
insectivorous
adj.
insect eating (of a plant or animal)
Insectivore
insectivorous
Adjective
1. (of animals and plants) feeding on insects
(antonym) carnivorous
(similar) apivorous
(classification) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
Insectivorous
(a.)
the Insectivora, and to many bats, birds, and reptiles.
(a.)
plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc.
(a.)
Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
insectivorous
Synonyms and related words:
cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, vegetable-eating, vegetarian
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
