1. (a.) Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous.

2. (a.) plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc.

3. (n.) The Insectivora, and to many bats, birds, and reptiles.

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