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What does insectivorous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word insectivorous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. feeding on insects
  2. (of a plant) capable of trapping and absorbing insects; such as the sundew, pitcher plant and Venus flytrap
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There, while hunting for the rare bog orchid, he stumbled on the minuscule, insectivorous sundew plant, Drosera rotundifolia.
The ancestral amniotes were small animals, superficially resembling primitive, insectivorous lizards.
This suggests that dibblers are essentially insectivorous dietary generalists and opportunists.
The new find is thought to belong to a group of small, mainly insectivorous birds called white eyes, which are related to warblers.
Vireos are small, primarily insectivorous passerines that live in forested or scrub habitats.
Plants such as birds-eye primrose, wild thyme, bilberry and the insectivorous butterwort will expand, creating spectacular landscapes.

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