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Insectivora   Listen
noun
Insectivora  n. pl.  (Zool.)
1.
An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order includes the moles, shrews, hedgehogs, tanrecs, and allied animals, also the colugo.
2.
A division of the Chiroptera, including the common or insect-eating bats.






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"Insectivora" Quotes from Famous Books



... there had been any direct connection between them during Tertiary times, we should hardly have found the deep-seated differences between the Quadrumana of the two regions—no family even being common to both; nor the peculiar Insectivora of the one continent, and the equally peculiar Edentata of the other. The very numerous families of birds quite peculiar to one or other of these continents, many of which, by their structural isolation ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace



Words linked to "Insectivora" :   Menotyphla, Tenrecidae, family Erinaceidae, family Talpidae, suborder Menotyphla, Talpidae, Eutheria, subclass Eutheria, family Tenrecidae, insectivore, animal order, family Soricidae, Soricidae, Erinaceidae, family Chrysochloridae, suborder Lipotyphla, Potamogalidae, order Insectivora, family Potamogalidae, Lipotyphla



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