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Insectivorous
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: (a) to
2. plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc.
3. to
4. the Insectivora, and to many bats, birds, and reptiles.