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11 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals
noun any organism that feeds mainly on insects
originFrom French insectivore. In the zoological sense, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French insectivore. The French terms reflect scientific New Latin origins. By surface analysis, insect + -i- + -vore.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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