omnivorous
Adjective
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Adjective
omnivorous (not comparable)
- Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
- (figuratively) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
- 1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a critical excursion (page 57)
- The Beckettian progression appears occasionally: while Miss Counihan (static) is an omnivorous reader and Murphy (transitional) a strict non-reader, Cooper is an analphabete.
- 2003, Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press. p.72:
- He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]
- 1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a critical excursion (page 57)
- (figuratively) All-consuming.
- French: omnivore
- German: allfressend
- Italian: onnivoro
- Portuguese: omnívoro (Portugal), onívoro (Brazil)
- Russian: всея́дный
- Spanish: omnívoro
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