Insectivore: alternatives and connections

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.

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A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed…

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A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.

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Wicked; malicious.

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A shrew; especially, the erd shrew.

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Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar.…

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A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec.…

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Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous.

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Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous.

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