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insectivore

noun
🔊/ɪnˈsektɪvɔː(r)/
🔊/ɪnˈsektɪvɔːr/
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  1. any animal that eats insects食虫动物 compare carnivore, herbivore, omnivore
    Word Originmid 19th cent.: from modern Latin insectivorus, from insectum (see insect) + -vorus ‘devouring’, on the pattern of Latin carnivorus ‘carnivorous’.