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omnivorous

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omnivorous
eating food of both animal and vegetable origin, or any type of food indiscriminately


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For like certain other omnivorous roving lovers that might be named, my Lord Whale has no taste for the nursery, however much for the bower; and so, being a great traveller, he leaves his anonymous babies all over the world; every baby an exotic.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Geeka was a perfect little savage; but at heart she was unchanged, being the same omnivorous listener as of yore.
The Son Of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Many varieties of fruit grew in abundance about us; and as Martian calots are omnivorous, Woola had no difficulty in making a square meal after I had brought down the viands for him.
Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
 
 
 
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