Old enough to have some perspective, maturity, and ten years of omnivorous reading.
The omnivorous creature represents a missing link between earlier meat-eaters and later herbivores.
The only other candidates were the large, meat-eating or omnivorous mammals of the site.
He was lucky in being, by temperament, chronically hungry and omnivorous.
Find out what these omnivorous giants eat to prepare for hibernation.
Yet the omnivorous nature of a colonial language is a writer's gift.
At the end of the millennium, this wasteful process threatens to become an omnivorous beast that consumes itself.
He is omnivorous in his exoticism, but restrictive in his geography.
The two are in the process of fusing with the movies into something larger and more omnivorous.
Slim combines an omnivorous attention to detail with a penchant for simplicity.
British Dictionary definitions for omnivorous
omnivorous
/ɒmˈnɪvərəs/
adjective
1.
eating food of both animal and vegetable origin, or any type of food indiscriminately
2.
taking in or assimilating everything, esp with the mind
Derived Forms
omnivorously, adverb omnivorousness, noun
Word Origin
C17: from Latin omnivorus all-devouring, from omni- + vorāre to eat greedily
Word Origin and History for omnivorous
adj.
1650s, from Latin omnivorus "all-devouring," from omnis "all" (see omni-) + vorare "devour, swallow" (see voracity). Related: Omnivorously; omnivorousness.
omnivorous in Science
omnivore
(ŏm'nə-vôr') An organism that eats both plants and animals.