Omnivore
//ˈɒmnɪvɔː(ɹ)// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore).
"Bears are omnivores: they can eat plants, but they also eat fish."
- 2 an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances wordnet
- 3 a person who eats all kinds of foods wordnet
Example
More examples"Although King Harkinian is pretty much an omnivore, as much as a human being could ever be, his favourite food is by far the fabled Munf Munf cereal. One curious exception to his habit of eating everything that's on the dinner table is spaghetti, which he loathes deeply, decreeing that nobody bring it into Hyrule Castle. Luigi and Mario are the only people banned from the Hyrule Kingdom for life for violating this order."
Etymology
From the Latin omnivorus. By surface analysis, omni- + -vore.
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