Omnivorous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Omnivorous \Om*niv"o*rous\, a. [L. omnivorus; omnis all + vorate
     to eat greedily. See {Voracious}.]
     1. All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as,
        omnivorous vanity; an omnivorous intellect.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  


     2. Specifically: (Zool.), Eating both animal and vegetable
        food.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Om*niv"o*rous*ness}, n.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  omnivorous
       adj : feeding on both plants and animals [ant: {insectivorous}, {carnivorous},
              {herbivorous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "omnivorous":
     Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, 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