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insectivores

insectivores is the plural of insectivore.

Meaning of insectivore

Noun

insectivore (plural insectivores)

  1. Insect-eating animal or plant.
    • An anteater is an insectivore with a long sticky tongue to catch its prey.
  2. (dated) mammal of the now abandoned order Insectivora.
    Synonyms:
    insectivoran

Questions about insectivores

What is insectivores the plural of?
Insectivores is the plural of insectivore.

Words near insectivores in the dictionary

  1. insections
  2. insectival
  3. insectivoran
  4. insectivorans
  5. insectivore
  6. insectivores
  7. insectivorian
  8. insectivorous
  9. insectivory
  10. insectkind
  11. insectless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: insectivores (page history and authors); insectivore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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