||En`to*moph"a*ga (?), n. pl. [NL., fr.
Gr. 'e`ntomon an insect + fagei^n to eat.]
(Zoöl.) 1. One of a group of
hymenopterous insects whose larvæ feed parasitically upon
living insects. See Ichneumon, 2.
2. A group of marsupials which are partly
insectivorous, as the opossum.
3. A group of edentates, including the ant-
eaters.