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Feeding vs Insectivorous - What's the difference?

feeding | insectivorous |

As a verb feeding

is .

As a noun feeding

is an instance of giving food.

As a adjective insectivorous is

feeding on insects.

feeding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of giving food.
  • * 1750 , The Universal Magazine (volume 7, page 52)
  • (dated) That which is eaten; food.
  • (dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pastureland.

    • Derived terms

    * bottom feeding * deposit feeding * filter feeding * fluid feeding * food-mass feeding * force feeding * feeding frenzy * feeding tube

    Anagrams

    * feigned

    insectivorous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • feeding on insects
  • (of a plant) capable of trapping and absorbing insects; such as the sundew, pitcher plant and Venus flytrap