Meaning of OMNIVOROUS
| Pronunciation: | | âm'nivurus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] feeding on both plants and animals |
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| | Synonyms: | | all-devouring(a) |
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| | Antonyms: | | carnivorous, herbivorous, insectivorous | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Om*niv"o*rous\, a. [L. omnivorus; omnis all + vorate
to eat greedily. See {Voracious}.]
All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as,
omnivorous vanity; esp. (Zo["o]l.), eating both animal and
vegetable food. -- {Om*niv"o*rous*ness}, n.
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| Glossary |
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| | Definition: | | eating both meat and vegetable food. |
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| | Related Terms: | | a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, Apician, avaricious, avid, bolting, bottomless, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, dietetic, dining, eating, edacious, esurient, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grasping, grass-eating, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, herbivorous, hoggish, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, insect-eating, insectivorous, intemperate, lactovegetarian, limitless, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, nourishing, nutritious, omophagous, overgreedy, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, piggish, plant-eating, polyphagic, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, vegetable-eating, vegetarian, venal, voracious, wolfing |
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