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Webster 1828 Edition
Omnivorous
OMNIV'OROUS
,Adj.
All-devouring; eating every thing indiscriminately.
Definition 2024
omnivorous
omnivorous
English
Adjective
omnivorous (not comparable)
- Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor herbivorous.
- (figuratively) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
- 2003 Winchester, Simon, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press. p72:
- He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]
- 2003 Winchester, Simon, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press. p72:
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having the ability to eat both animal and vegetable food