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omnivore

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Word definitions for omnivore in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who eats all kinds of foods an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Omnivore is a consumption classification for animals that have the capability to obtain energy and nutrients from materials originating from plant and animal origin. Often, omnivores also have the ability to incorporate food sources such as algae , fungi ...

Usage examples of omnivore.

He is a super-bird, a wingless omnivore like me and thee, who sounds rather like Diatryma a few million years ahead of his time.

There was a pair of deltatheridiums, ratlike omnivores, neither marsupial nor placental, a unique line that would not outlive the dinosaurs.

There were large and small, skulkers and runners, pygmies and giants, slim omnivores and pillar-toothed herbivores.

Somehow the notion that Cal should try to drink the blood of the omnivore disturbed Aquilon even more than had the donation of her own.

The humans themselves are omnivores, and have therefore evolved cuisines incorporating both flesh and vegetation.

They were highly adaptable, they were omnivores as humankind's ancestors were, and in fact they resembled some of the primitive specimens on our own family tree.

We got a dialogue going many years later, because I sent him a fan letter after reading Omnivore.

Even among herbivores and omnivores, many species, like koalas, are too finicky in their plant preferences to recommend themselves as farm animals.

The giant forest pig, Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, six teats and thirty-eight chromosomes, a resourceful feeder, an opportunistic omnivore, like man.

This is what Mason sent to his breeders in Sardinia to prepare the theater of Dr Lecter's death: The giant forest pig, Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, six teats and thirty-eight chromosomes, a resourceful feeder, an opportunistic omnivore, like man.

No one was sure if it was breeding or genetics or great good fortune or the omnivore diet, but werewolves, in addition to being exceptionally strong and exceptionally fast, were exceptionally easy on the eyes.