Crossword-Solution: INSECTIVOROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Insectivorous | a. | Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. |
| Insectivorous | a. | plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc. |
| Insectivorous | a. | the Insectivora, and to many bats, birds, and reptiles. |
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| Ant-eating, say? | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with INSECTIVOROUS (5)
Even when Giovanni sells a quart of warm worms and chestnut hulls he has to hand out a pint to an insectivorous cop.
But inasmuch as he felt evolution to be his life's work, he regarded himself as something of an idler in observing climbing plants, insectivorous plants, orchids, etc.
The effect on the insects must have been still greater, for six insectivorous birds were very common in the plantations, which were not to be seen on the heath; and the heath was frequented by two or three distinct insectivorous birds.
Hence, if certain insectivorous birds were to decrease in Paraguay, the parasitic insects would probably increase; and this would lessen the number of the navel-frequenting flies—then cattle and horses would become feral, and this would certainly greatly alter (as indeed I have observed in parts of South America) the vegetation: this again would largely affect the insects; and this, as we have just seen in Staffordshire, the insectivorous birds, and so onwards in ever-increasing circles of complexity.
During subsequent years, whenever I had leisure, I pursued my experiments, and my book on ‘Insectivorous Plants’ was published in July 1875—that is, sixteen years after my first observations.