Omnivorous Definition
ŏm-nĭvər-əs
adjective
Eating any sort of food, esp. both animal and vegetable food.
Webster's New World
Taking in everything indiscriminately, as with the intellect.
An omnivorous reader.
Webster's New World
Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor herbivorous.
Wiktionary
(figuratively) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
2003 Winchester, Simon, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press. p72.
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Origin of Omnivorous
From Latin omnivorus omni- omni- -vorus -vorous
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From the Latin omni, all and -vore.
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