insectivore vs beast

insectivore and beast both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
insectivore	Yes	No	No	No
beast	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, beast is a hypernym of insectivore; that is, beast is a word with a broader meaning than insectivore:

Other hypernyms of insectivore include animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna.

insectivore (noun)	beast (noun)
small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
any organism that feeds mainly on insects	a cruelly rapacious person