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omnivorous
Word definitions for omnivorous in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. feeding on both plants and animals [ant: insectivorous , carnivorous , herbivorous ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Latin omnivorus "all-devouring," from omnis "all" (see omni -) + vorare "devour, swallow" (see voracity ). Related: Omnivorously ; omnivorousness .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ an omnivorous reporter EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All were white caucasians on an ad libitum omnivorous diet. ▪ Learning becomes even more important in the feeding of so omnivorous an animal as the rat. ▪ Most fruit-eaters ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Omnivorous \Om*niv"o*rous\, a. [L. omnivorus; omnis all + vorate to eat greedily. See Voracious .] All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; an omnivorous intellect. Specifically: (Zo["o]l.), Eating both animal and vegetable ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor herbivorous. 2 (context figuratively English) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
Usage examples of omnivorous.
Steppe pikes, souslik marmots, great jerboas, varying hares -- gray brown now instead of winter white -- and an occasional, omnivorous, mouse-hunting giant hamster abounded on the plains.
The basto is an ill tempered, omnivorous brute, always looking for trouble.
The ostrichlike, omnivorous cavalry mounts were actually related to the vastly larger packbeasts, so they had leathery skin and were more capable of handling desiccation than the slime coated, amphibian-derived Mardukans.
Those succulent bivalves may help us and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged through mister omnivorous porker, were unsurpassed in cases of nervous debility or viragitis.
Steppe pikes, souslik marmots, great jerboas, varying hares -- gray brown now instead of winter white -- and an occasional, omnivorous, mouse-hunting giant hamster abounded on the plains.
The Aquatics were the only omnivorous members of the Coalition, and they bred abnormally fast, even for insects.
There was no vegetation, except for an occasional stunted holly bush, the leaves of which were too bitter even for the omnivorous arang to eat.
The effect had reminded him of the few details that Boba Fett had recounted, about having been swallowed by the blind, omnivorous beast that had once formed the fang-ringed center of the Great Pit of Carkoon, back in the Dune Sea on Tatooine.
The fathead: a big bottomfeeder with a conspicuous fleshy prominence above the eyes, toothless but voracious and omnivorous.
Beside it hovered a pair of spectral dodecahedra, like the omnivorous Phage artifacts that she had encountered on Glister.
Now those people are gone, but the city remains, producing breathable air, growing edible fruit, supporting at least some omnivorous wildlife as though in anticipation of the needs of the mantas, manufacturing things for human use.
He wanted to be as prepared as possible for any and all hostile conditions, including omnivorous organisms and other enigmas to be solved or avoided, they might encounter on Pern’s surface.
Friday's market was more than usually crowded, and Stephen's anxiety to find Houmouzios was more than usually keen: the harmattan had cracked not only the Commodore's sea-chest but a large number of other things aboard the Bellona, including the caddy in which Stephen kept his small remaining store of coca-leaves: the omnivorous, insatiable Guinea cockroaches had swarmed in, fouling what little they could not eat, and already he was feeling the lack.
But she began to have more respect for the acumen of the absentee landlords: whatever they were besides omnivorous.
The Gringg also required the availability of certain minerals and earths on a colonial world for, despite being omnivorous and able to digest more substances than Hayuman or Hrrubans could, they had to have a certain range of additives.