ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsOomnivore
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omnivore
Meaning: an animal that eats both plants and other animals
omnivore in a sentence
How omnivore is used in real sentences:
Bears are considered omnivores because they eat both berries and fish.
Because the fox is an omnivore, its diet shifts from small rodents to berries when prey becomes scarce in winter.
“As an omnivore, he ate roots beside the deer and fish beside the foxes.”
— from the passage Seven Beats Together
Where it comes from
From Latin omnis 'all' plus vorare 'to devour'
Memory hook
OMNIVORE — 'OMNI' (all) + 'VORE' (devour) means it eats it all.