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# insectivore

«insectivore» in Mova's school dictionary: **An animal or plant that eats mainly insects** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an insectivore, insectivores)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An animal or plant that eats mainly insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insectivore/#m1)

2) (science, older) A word once used for a group of small mammals like shrews, moles and hedgehogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insectivore/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on food chains and diets, animals are herbivores (eat plants), carnivores (eat meat), omnivores (eat both) and insectivores (eat insects). Examples: anteaters, bats, swallows, frogs, hedgehogs, Venus flytraps. Phrases: an insectivore, insectivorous plants.

### examples

- Bats are insectivores; one bat can eat hundreds of midges in a night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insectivore/#x1)
- The hedgehog is an insectivore that hunts beetles and worms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insectivore/#x2)
- A Venus flytrap is an insectivore plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insectivore/#x3)
- Anteaters are insectivores with long sticky tongues. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insectivore/#x4)
- Swallows are insectivores that catch flies in the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insectivore/#x5)
- Is a frog an insectivore or a carnivore? Both words can fit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insectivore/#x6)

### note

Adjective «insectivorous». «-vore» means «eater»: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore. An insectivore is a kind of carnivore. Spiders and worms are not insects, but insectivores often eat them too.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «insectivore» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insectivore/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.