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omnivorousness

/om-niv-er-uhs/US // ɒmˈnɪv ər əs //UK // (ɒmˈnɪvərəs) //

杂食性,杂食主义,全能性,全能的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : eating both animal and plant foods.
    • : eating all kinds of foods indiscriminately.
    • : taking in everything, as with the mind: an omnivorous reader.

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Examples

  • Fat Bear Week celebrates Ursidae body image in the best way, as these omnivorous mammals are gorging before hibernation.

  • If one had to describe his intellectual predilections in a word, it would have to be “omnivorous.”

  • Vegan women are only one-fifth as likely to have twins as are vegetarian and omnivorous women.

  • He has an omnivorous and hyper intellect, and a quick wit—and is easily bored.

  • The Daily Beast is the omnivorous friend who hears about the best stuff and forwards it to you with a twist.

  • It is quite within the limits of probability, for instance, that the man-ape at an early date became omnivorous in its diet.

  • The young gorilla which was kept in captivity at Berlin became quite omnivorous in its diet.

  • She was an omnivorous reader, especially of philosophic works, and very fond of discussing what she read.

  • They have a prejudice against milk; but in the matter of other sorts of food are omnivorous.

  • Like many Edinburgh shopkeepers, Mr. Traill was a man of superior education and an omnivorous reader.