Meanings of insectivora in английском

These buildings were dark, damp and infested with a multiplicity of insectivora.

The carnivora and insectivora, with certain exceptions, prefer freshly killed food.

Many of the insectivora also practice this custom.

At this remoter period they were probably not separable from the insectivora, or (perhaps) from the ancestral marsupials.

Gazing into the infinity of space human existence seemed but the scum upon a rainpool, human warfare but the frenzy of insectivora.

The exceptions are mainly insectivora, and such larger animals as the mythology of the Igorot says were once men-asthe monkey, serpent-eagle ,crow ,snake ,etc

Others (Macrotarsi) are nearer to the Insectivora, others again (Chiromys) to the Rodents.

Among the Insectivora, the alpine shrew (Sorex alpinus) is restricted to the Alps.

And the hedgehog, like most of the order Insectivora, is cursed with the temper of Eblis, too.

The members of this order live very largely on insects and worms, and the name Insectivora means insect-eating.

Now look at the Galeopithecus or so-called flying lemur, which was formerly ranked among bats, but is now believed to belong to the Insectivora.

- 2 branches - Branch I, Placentals, from which branch off Rodents, Insectivora, a branch terminating in Ruminants and Pachyderms, Canidae and terminates in Quadrumana.