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# omnivore

«omnivore» in Mova's school dictionary: **an animal that eats both plants and other animals** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an omnivore, omnivores); adjective form: omnivorous

### meaning for a pupil

1) An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and other animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnivore/#m1)

2) Informally, a person who eats all kinds of food, including meat and vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnivore/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science lessons about food chains and diets, beside "herbivore" (plants only) and "carnivore" (meat only). Bears, pigs, raccoons, chickens and most people are omnivores. In a food web an omnivore can be both a primary and a secondary consumer.

### examples

- A bear is an omnivore because it eats berries and fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnivore/#x1)
- Humans are omnivores. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnivore/#x2)
- Is a pig a herbivore, a carnivore or an omnivore? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnivore/#x3)
- Raccoons are omnivores and eat almost anything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnivore/#x4)
- Omnivores have both sharp and flat teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnivore/#x5)
- Sort the animals into herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnivore/#x6)
- My brother is a real omnivore and will eat any food you give him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnivore/#x7)

### note

Countable: an omnivore, two omnivores. Word family: herbivore, carnivore, insectivore. The "-vore" ending means "eater". A vegetarian person is still an omnivore as a species.

### In the corpora

- [Most bears are omnivores, and their sense of smell is many times better than a dog's.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/14/)
- [Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omnivores and will even eat mice and small frogs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/7/)
- [Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat animals, and omnivores eat both.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «omnivore» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omnivore/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.