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What does omnivorous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word omnivorous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
  2. (figuratively) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.
  3. (figuratively) all-consuming
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A gentle aesthete and a shambolic dilettante, he was extraordinarily widely read, but shrewd and critical as well as omnivorous.
Most ducks are omnivorous, but some are primarily herbivores and others are mostly carnivorous.
That's a nice little rhetorical trick, to pretend that the only possible omnivorous diet must be an unhealthy fast food one.
The menu provides ample vegetarian options, including garlicky Caesar salad and portobello burgers, in addition to several omnivorous offerings.
Eastern Box Turtles are omnivorous terrestrial reptiles found throughout much of the Eastern United States.
Big-eyed bugs are omnivorous, generalist predators and their diverse range of prey species includes aphids and lepidopteran eggs.

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