insectivorous in English

adjective
1
(of an animal) feeding on insects, worms, and other invertebrates.
Herbivorous, granivorous and insectivorous birds have a highly specialized, muscular gizzard with an inner lining of hard cuticle.

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1. Common Butterwort is an insectivorous plant

2. Insectivorous plants are considered carnivores.

3. The Aardwolf is an insectivorous mammal, native to Africa

4. This is the tidbit which tempts his insectivorous fate.

5. N Banxring bangks′ring a small insectivorous animal of Java and Sumatra.

6. Banxring (plural Banxrings) An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia; Synonyms

7. It is an insectivorous plant and plays a special role in an ecosystem.

8. Bats are nocturnal flying mammals. The statistics presented here describe small, insectivorous bats.

9. What does Banxring mean? (zoology) An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia

10. N Banxring (Zoöl) An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia

11. N Banxring A name of a squirrel-like insectivorous mammal of Java, the Tupaia javanica

12. Like most warblers, it is insectivorous, but will also eat berries and other soft fruit.

13. Anole - small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color

14. The majority of species are insectivorous, and insectivory is widely distributed through all microChiropteran families.

15. The Aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is a small, insectivorous mammal, native to East Africa and Southern Africa

16. Charles Darwin wrote Insectivorous Plants, the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants, in 1875.

17. Botany Capable of trapping insects or other small organisms and absorbing nutrients from them; insectivorous.

18. Among these are birds of prey, gallinaceous birds as well as predominantly insectivorous, fruiteating and granivorous songbirds.

19. Synonyms for Creophagous include carnivorous, flesh-eating, hunting, meat-eating, predatory, cannibal, fish-eating, hungry, insectivorous and omnivorous

20. The systematics of the Babblers (Timaliidae) and related members of the Old World insectivorous passerines have been particularly difficult

21. Synonyms for Creophagous include carnivorous, flesh-eating, hunting, meat-eating, predatory, cannibal, fish-eating, hungry, insectivorous and omnivorous

22. Like fruit-eating bats, and unlike insectivorous and fish-eating bats, they emit only low-energy sound pulses.

23. Aardwolf (plural Aardwolves) A nocturnal , insectivorous mammal , Proteles cristatus , of southern and eastern Africa, related to and resembling the hyena

24. Our main inference was that as insectivorous primates radiated within the forest they took to fruit-eating and became diurnal.

25. Banxring definition: a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia , resembling a squirrel , native Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

26. Compared with omnivorous pheasants,[sentencedict .com] insectivorous birds and raptorial birds Koklass's digestive system is similar to the typical phytophagous birds.

27. Aprocta cylindrica should be considered a differential diagnosis in periocular abnormalities of robins and other insectivorous, migratory passerines in Western Europe.

28. Aprocta cylindrica should be considered a differential diagnosis in periocular abnormalities of robins and other insectivorous, migratory passerines in Western Europe

29. In the late 20th century, the Sylviidae were thought to unite nearly 300 small insectivorous bird species in nearly 50 genera.

30. What does ant-thrush mean? Either of two insectivorous thrushes: Neocossyphus rufus (the red-tailed Ant thrush) and Neocossyphus poensis (the white

31. Banxring 释义: a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia , resembling a squirrel , native 意思、发音、翻译及示例

32. The aardwolf (Proteles cristatus) is a small insectivorous hyena -like mammal , native to Eastern and Southern Africa . The name means "earth wolf" in Afrikaans .

33. Ant thrush ( plural Ant thrushes ) Either of two insectivorous thrushes: Neocossyphus rufus (the red-tailed Ant thrush) and Neocossyphus poensis (the white-tailed Ant thrush)

34. An old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder MegaChiroptera (fruit bats); suborder MicroChiroptera (insectivorous bats) Familiarity information: Chiroptera used as a noun is very rare.

35. The former was almost certainly insectivorous due to its small size; Eudimorphodon has been found with fish remains in its stomach, but its dentition suggests an opportunistic diet.

36. As nouns the difference between Banxring and tana is that Banxring is (label) an east indian insectivorous mammal of the genus tupaia while tana is the Banxring or tree shrew.

37. Definition of Bat (Entry 3 of 5) : any of a widely distributed order (Chiroptera) of nocturnal usually frugivorous or insectivorous flying mammals that have wings formed from four elongated digits of the …

38. ‘The sequence from the early Amniotes to the early mammals is the most fully documented of the major transitions in vertebrate evolution.’ ‘The ancestral Amniotes were small animals, superficially resembling primitive, insectivorous lizards.’

39. Chiroptera, order Chiroptera - an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder MegaChiroptera (fruit bats); suborder MicroChiroptera (insectivorous bats) fruit bat , megabat - large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit

40. ‘The sequence from the early Amniotes to the early mammals is the most fully documented of the major transitions in vertebrate evolution.’ ‘The ancestral Amniotes were small animals, superficially resembling primitive, insectivorous lizards.’

41. Agamidae definition is - a widely distributed family of Old World lizards related to the New World iguanas but distinguished by acrodont dentition and including arboreal, terrestrial, and semiaquatic forms most of which are insectivorous (as the frilled lizard, the flying dragon, and the Australian moloch).

42. Batrachian: 1 n any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species Synonyms: anuran , frog , salientian , toad , toad frog Types: show 51 types hide 51 types ranid , true frog insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs

43. • Babbler is British and Australian slang for a cook or chef • Bird of the thrush family Muscicapidae with a loud babbling cry • The Babbler is a family of birds (Timaliidae) • Any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song • A name given to any one of family (Timalinae) of thrushlike birds

44. Agamid: 1 n a lizard of the family Agamidae Synonyms: Agamid lizard Types: show 5 types hide 5 types agama small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World Chlamydosaurus kingi , frilled lizard large arboreal insectivorous Australian lizard with a ruff of skin around the neck dragon , flying dragon , flying lizard any of several

45. The Bristled grassbird (Schoenicola striatus) is a small passerine bird in the genus Schoenicola.Also known as the Bristled grass warbler, this species is endemic to the Indian subcontinent, where it is patchily distributed in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.These insectivorous birds skulk in dense and tall grasslands, often in marshy areas, habitats that are threatened by human activities.