English
Etymology
From the Latin omnivorus.
Pronunciation
Noun
omnivore (plural omnivores)
- An animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore).
- Coordinate terms: herbivore, carnivore, folivore, frugivore, insectivore, hemovore
Bears are omnivores: they can eat plants, but they also eat fish.
Derived terms
Translations
animal eating both plants and meat
- Afrikaans: omnivoor (af), alleseter
- Arabic: حَيَوَان قَارِت m (ḥayawān qārit), حَيَوَان كَالِش m (ḥayawān kāliš)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: hollzebrer m
- Bulgarian: всеядно животно (vsejadno životno)
- Catalan: omnívor m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 雜食動物 / 杂食动物 (zh) (záshí dòngwù), 雜食獸 / 杂食兽 (zh) (záshíshòu)
- Czech: všežravec (cs) m
- Danish: altæder c, omnivor (da) c
- Dutch: omnivoor (nl) m, alleseter (nl) m
- Finnish: kaikkiruokainen (fi)
- French: omnivore (fr) m
- Galician: omnívoro (gl) m
- Georgian: ყველაფრისმჭამელი (q̇velaprismč̣ameli), ყველაფრის მჭამელი (q̇velapris mč̣ameli)
- German: Allesfresser (de), Omnivore (de) m
- Greek: παμφάγος (el) m (pamfágos)
- Hindi: सर्वाहारी m (sarvāhārī)
- Hungarian: mindenevő (hu)
- Icelandic: alæta (is) f
- Indonesian: omnivor (id)
- Italian: onnivoro (it) m
- Japanese: 雑食動物 (ざっしょくどうぶつ, zasshokudōbutsu)
- Khmer: សព្វាសី (km) (sob pea sei)
- Korean: 잡식동물(雜食動物) (ko) (japsikdongmul)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: giştxur
- Macedonian: сештоја́д m (seštojád)
- Malay: binatang maserba, haiwan maserba, haiwan omnivor, omnivor
- Malayalam: മിശ്രഭുക്ക് (miśrabhukkŭ)
- Maori: kaikiota
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: alteter m, omnivor m
- Nynorsk: altetar m, omnivor m
- Polish: wszystkożerca m
- Portuguese: onívoro (pt)
- Russian: всея́дный (ru) (vsejádnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: svaštožder, svaštojedac, svaštojed
- Spanish: omnívoro (es) m
- Swedish: allätare (sv) c, omnivor (sv) c
- Tagalog: tanankain
- Welsh: hollysydd m
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin omnivorus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
omnivore (plural omnivores)
- omnivorous
Noun
omnivore m (plural omnivores)
- omnivore
See also
Further reading
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /omˈni.vo.re/
- Rhymes: -ivore
- Hyphenation: om‧nì‧vo‧re
Adjective
omnivore
- feminine plural of omnivoro
Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
omnivore
- vocative masculine singular of omnivorus