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Definition of omnivorous in English: omnivorousadjective ɒmˈnɪv(ə)rəsɑmˈnɪv(ə)rəs 1(of an animal or person) feeding on a variety of food of both plant and animal origin. Example sentencesExamples - Did you know they are omnivorous, eating grass, foliage, and any small animals they can chase down?
- When in coastal marshes, they are more omnivorous than most dabbling ducks, with mollusks, crustaceans, and arthropods making up nearly half of their diet.
- Sloth bears are omnivorous and feed on a variety of foods depending on what is available.
- To accomplish this goal, we quantified the effects of variation in host plant quality and prey abundance on the intensity of interactions between an omnivorous insect and two herbivorous prey.
- Big-eyed bugs are omnivorous, generalist predators and their diverse range of prey species includes aphids and lepidopteran eggs.
- The omnivorous scavengers could find food sources virtually anywhere and could survive without human care in the proper environment.
- The heart of teleost fish is omnivorous in its preference for metabolic fuels.
- Black bears are omnivorous; their diet consists of about 75 percent vegetable matter, 15 percent carrion, and 10 percent insects and small mammals.
- He declared that while the red-muzzle mouse is omnivorous and feeds on vegetable and animal organic matter, it is ‘very rare’ that it should consume carrion.
- The overall craniodental morphology of the etruscan bear, U. etruscus, is similar to that of modern brown bears, Ursus arctos, thus suggesting that this extinct species was also omnivorous.
- Sea turtles are omnivorous and feed on a variety of sponges, cnidarians, mollusks, crustaceans, algae, plants, and fish.
- One of the major benefits of using omnivorous predators as biological control agents is the potential for predicting and promoting their efficacy.
- Vervet monkeys are omnivorous and consume a wide range of plant materials like fruits, seeds, sap, and flowers.
- A recent article in the journal Nature, for example, reported that aquaculture for herbivorous or omnivorous species such as carp and molluscs can greatly contribute to global fish supplies.
- Carnivory is the rule for softshells, but some species are omnivorous.
- When predators are omnivorous, prey may avoid predators that have fed on conspecific prey, but they may lack such a response if these same predators have consumed other food sources.
- The main difference is the proportion of omnivorous species, which are represented exclusively by the bear because suids are absent from Europe during the early Pleistocene.
- The ornithomimids' beaked jaws were probably weak; it is thought that they may have been omnivorous, eating small animals and maybe some plant material.
- They are omnivorous, eating native birds and eggs, which they steal from the nest, and competing for food with birds.
- In theropods, the absence of strongly heterodont dentitions such as are typical of omnivorous mammals might reflect the limited resources that were available.
Synonyms eating a mixed/varied diet, able to eat anything, all-devouring rare pantophagous, pamphagous, pantophagic, omnivorant 2Indiscriminate in taking in or using whatever is available. Example sentencesExamples - Though I have been a voracious, omnivorous reader all my life, I haven't been interested in books other than field guides lately.
- Always an omnivorous consumer of journalism, Id begun reading the occasional reference to something called the ‘greenhouse effect’.
- An omnivorous consumer of books and news, he has been able to spot markets where networked computers running just the right program can save customers money.
- He is also known to nibble on British Comedy and is an omnivorous consumer of the popular musics.
- He was an omnivorous, fast, and extraordinarily retentive reader.
Synonyms undiscriminating, indiscriminate, unselective, uncritical
Derivatives adverb He spent his time reading omnivorously and engaging in doctrinal squabbles with other left-wing German refugees. Example sentencesExamples - Amidst all this solemn and committed political life Macmillan had time to keep a diary (with some gaps) and to read omnivorously, mainly but not entirely the English classics.
- Ferriter has read omnivorously in the new social history: subjects such as insanity, sex, the history of childhood, travellers, medical care, leisure (especially sport) receive full treatment; above all, so does the history of women.
- A surprisingly consistent worldview emerges from the wildly original sound with repeated listens, explored within an aesthetically challenging and omnivorously creative musical framework.
- Lawyers read omnivorously, for though books were somewhat scarce in the colonial period, there was a lot of time in which to read.
noun Might that be no more than a coded way of drawing attention to an ability to accept compromise, an omnivorousness, and a variety of output that makes his oeuvre - in the language of the motor industry - somehow unintegrated? Example sentencesExamples - This perceived omnivorousness aggravates specialists such as Williams who have painstakingly developed unique disciplines only to see them apparently subsumed under ‘permaculture.’
- I am not so sure of their total digestion, but I do recognize their omnivorousness, their heaping the plate with every piping-hot vice and outrage they could muster.
- I was also unnerved by her spiritual omnivorousness.
- On enumerating some of them, commenters said that these questions were ‘absurd’ and (I think) they thought that I was arguing absurdities, or that I was trying to use them to justify omnivorousness.
- Regulars will know of this column's admiration for the uncritical omnivorousness of the Dutch site.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin omnivorus + -ous. Rhymes carnivorous, herbivorous, insectivorous Definition of omnivorous in US English: omnivorousadjectiveɑmˈnɪv(ə)rəsämˈniv(ə)rəs 1(of an animal or person) feeding on food of both plant and animal origin. Example sentencesExamples - Vervet monkeys are omnivorous and consume a wide range of plant materials like fruits, seeds, sap, and flowers.
- The main difference is the proportion of omnivorous species, which are represented exclusively by the bear because suids are absent from Europe during the early Pleistocene.
- The heart of teleost fish is omnivorous in its preference for metabolic fuels.
- In theropods, the absence of strongly heterodont dentitions such as are typical of omnivorous mammals might reflect the limited resources that were available.
- Carnivory is the rule for softshells, but some species are omnivorous.
- Black bears are omnivorous; their diet consists of about 75 percent vegetable matter, 15 percent carrion, and 10 percent insects and small mammals.
- The omnivorous scavengers could find food sources virtually anywhere and could survive without human care in the proper environment.
- Did you know they are omnivorous, eating grass, foliage, and any small animals they can chase down?
- They are omnivorous, eating native birds and eggs, which they steal from the nest, and competing for food with birds.
- One of the major benefits of using omnivorous predators as biological control agents is the potential for predicting and promoting their efficacy.
- The overall craniodental morphology of the etruscan bear, U. etruscus, is similar to that of modern brown bears, Ursus arctos, thus suggesting that this extinct species was also omnivorous.
- When predators are omnivorous, prey may avoid predators that have fed on conspecific prey, but they may lack such a response if these same predators have consumed other food sources.
- He declared that while the red-muzzle mouse is omnivorous and feeds on vegetable and animal organic matter, it is ‘very rare’ that it should consume carrion.
- The ornithomimids' beaked jaws were probably weak; it is thought that they may have been omnivorous, eating small animals and maybe some plant material.
- To accomplish this goal, we quantified the effects of variation in host plant quality and prey abundance on the intensity of interactions between an omnivorous insect and two herbivorous prey.
- Sloth bears are omnivorous and feed on a variety of foods depending on what is available.
- Sea turtles are omnivorous and feed on a variety of sponges, cnidarians, mollusks, crustaceans, algae, plants, and fish.
- A recent article in the journal Nature, for example, reported that aquaculture for herbivorous or omnivorous species such as carp and molluscs can greatly contribute to global fish supplies.
- When in coastal marshes, they are more omnivorous than most dabbling ducks, with mollusks, crustaceans, and arthropods making up nearly half of their diet.
- Big-eyed bugs are omnivorous, generalist predators and their diverse range of prey species includes aphids and lepidopteran eggs.
Synonyms eating a mixed diet, eating a varied diet, able to eat anything, all-devouring - 1.1 Taking in or using whatever is available.
Example sentencesExamples - He is also known to nibble on British Comedy and is an omnivorous consumer of the popular musics.
- Though I have been a voracious, omnivorous reader all my life, I haven't been interested in books other than field guides lately.
- Always an omnivorous consumer of journalism, Id begun reading the occasional reference to something called the ‘greenhouse effect’.
- He was an omnivorous, fast, and extraordinarily retentive reader.
- An omnivorous consumer of books and news, he has been able to spot markets where networked computers running just the right program can save customers money.
Synonyms undiscriminating, indiscriminate, unselective, uncritical
Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin omnivorus + -ous. |