Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mammalogy, the non-ruminant or omnivorous artiodactyl ungulate quadrupeds, as pigs and hippopotamuses; a division of Artiodactyla contrasting with Pecora or Ruminantia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of ungulate mammals including the hog and the hippopotamus. The term is also sometimes applied to the bears, and to certain passerine birds.
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Examples
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Here the Mussaul sits on the ice numda while we have our meals, and as each plate returns from the table, he takes charge of it, and transfers to his mouth whatever he finds on it, for he is of the omnivora, like the crow.
Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880
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Man, the dog, and other omnivora and carnivora may be attacked by it in a constitutional form as fatal as in the herbivora, but fortunately in many cases develop from it only local trouble, followed by recovery.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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It is a fear blended with a feeling of disgust; and it is a fear not altogether unfounded -- for I know of many well-authenticated cases, in which rats have attacked human beings, and not a few where children, and even men, wounded or otherwise disabled, have actually been killed and devoured by these hideous _omnivora_.
The Boy Tar Mayne Reid 1850
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Other field diseases of sweet potatoes (and their causal organisms) are root rot (Phymatotrichopsis omnivora), mottle necrosis (Pythium spp.), phyllosticta leaf blight (Phyllosticta batatas), septoria leaf spot (Septoria bataticola) and white rust (Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae).
Chapter 30 1987
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