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Word Meanings - INSECTIVOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to

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  • CARNIVOROUS
    Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
  • APPLICABLE
    Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
  • APPLICATIVE
    Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
  • APPLICANCY
    The quality or state of being applicable.
  • APPLICABILITY
    The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
  • APPLICATORILY
    By way of application.
  • SUBSISTENCY
    Subsistence.
  • SUBSISTENCE
    See HOOKER (more info) 1. Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet. 2. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in
  • APPLICATE
    Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
  • FEEDING
    1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening. 2. That which is eaten; food. 3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
  • APPLICATION
    1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
  • SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT
    A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food
  • FEED
    f, fr. f food; akin to C. f, OFries f, f, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, 1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak. 2.
  • APPLIABLE
    Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
  • APPLIEDLY
    By application.
  • FEEDER
    An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith. 2. One
  • APPLIER
    He who, or that which, applies.
  • APPLICATORY
    Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.
  • SUBSIST
    sub under + sistere to stand, to cause to stand, from stare to stand: 1. To be; to have existence; to inhere. And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all. Pope. 2. To continue; to retain a certain state. Firm
  • APPLIMENT
    Application. Marston
  • UNAPPLIABLE
    Inapplicable. Milton.
  • REAPPLICATION
    The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
  • STALL-FEED
    To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.
  • INAPPLICABILITY
    The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
  • OVERFEED
    To feed to excess; to surfeit.
  • MISAPPLICATION
    A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.

 

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