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omnivorous
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑmˈnɪ.vɝ.əs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: om‧niv‧o‧rous
- Rhymes: -ɪvəɹəs
Adjective
omnivorous (comparative more omnivorous, superlative most omnivorous)
- Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
- Coordinate terms: carnivorous, folivorous, frugivorous, herbivorous, insectivorous
- (figuratively) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
- 1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a critical excursion, page 57:
- The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete.
- 2003, Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press, page 72:
- He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]
- (figuratively) All-consuming.
- (botany) Of a parasite: attacking many species; not confined to a single host plant.
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Translations
having the ability to eat both animal and vegetable food
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