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Meanings of omnivorous in English
Catalan
omnívor Feeding on both plants and animals.
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Examples for "carnivorous"
Examples for "carnivorous"
1
Some time after two million years ago, ape-men had become more carnivorous.
2
Ireland has several native species of carnivorous plants, growing in bog habitats.
3
The nutritive process is seen in its simplest form in carnivorous animals.
4
Other carnivorous larvæ-atleast in the series of the Hymenoptera-must share it.
5
We watched as Polyphemus visited his carnivorous flock on the far side.
1
The only flesh they eat is that of herbivorous animals and birds.
2
The odors of blood, meat, and fat are repugnant to herbivorous animals.
3
Nothing is more remarkable than the result of habits in the herbivorous mammals.
4
The world had far more medium-sized herbivorous mammals than I'd imagined.
5
They were evidently herbivorous and some of them of gigantic size.
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Under ideal weather conditions, reclaimed wetlands can support healthy populations of aerially-insectivorous birds.
2
Bats are mostly insectivorous; a few are fruit-eaters, such as our common flying-fox.
3
We began this series by insectivorous birds, and we had ended with them.
4
I have been working for some time on a special subject, namely insectivorous plants.
5
They include carnivorous, herbivorous, and insectivorous families, and their head-quarters appear to be Australia.
Usage of omnivorous in English
1
Of English Literature and especially of poetry he was an omnivorous reader.
2
And tucking up this brass omnivorous hoofed mammal, reminder of swine everywhere.
3
Monkeys are omnivorous, never having been persuaded by the arguments of vegetarians.
4
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
5
I was still omnivorous, at least -female mosquitoes don't eat plants.
6
They, in turn, provided high-energy food to carnivorous and omnivorous animals.
7
The archaic type of teeth indicates that the animal was omnivorous in diet.
8
These little babies have the digestion of an ostrich and his omnivorous appetite.
9
Kanks were omnivorous creatures, but they generally did not attack people.
10
My appetite for reading was omnivorous, and I devoured a great many romances.
11
They descended from a primeval omnivorous mammal very closely related to your race.
12
His father had been an omnivorous reader, and had amassed a large library.
13
Like most successful forms of intelligent life, Gresth Gkae was omnivorous.
14
A most omnivorous novel-reader, these and later years, devour'd everything I could get.
15
Or had you an omnivorous capacity, and elasticity that always met the occasion?
16
Taylor's intellect is omnivorous and versatile-hismind is unceasingly active, his grasp wide.
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