“insectivore”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

insectivore

释义

insectivore|ɪnˈsɛktɪvɔə(r)|
Also -vor.
[a. mod.F. insectivore (Cuvier, 1817), ad. L. insectivor-us: see prec.]
An insectivorous animal or plant; spec. a mammal of the order Insectivora.
1863Huxley Man's Place Nat. ii. 95 The progress of cerebral complexity is traceable through a complete series of steps from the lowest Rodent or Insectivore to Man.1879Wright Anim. Life 65 Most of the Insectivores live under the ground.1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life ii. xvii. 351 Ptilocercus, a feather-tailed arboreal insectivore.1884Cornh. Mag. Oct. 406 This remarkable insectivore [Venus's fly-trap] appears to be still a new and struggling species, or else an old type on the very point of extinction.1896Brit. Birds I. 5 Many ‘insectivors’, when kept in the same aviary with seed-eating birds, swallow quantities of seed.

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