Insectivorous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Insectivorous \In`sec*tiv"o*rous\, a. [See {Insectivora}.]
     Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is
     applied:
     (a) to plants which have some special adaptation for catching
         and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap,
         Sarracenia, etc.


     (b) to the Insectivora, and many bats, birds, and reptiles.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  insectivorous
       adj : (of animals and plants) feeding on insects [ant: {carnivorous},
              {herbivorous}, {omnivorous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "insectivorous":
     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