omnivorous

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Stylistically Omnivorous and Erasing Boundaries The League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music has long presented chamber concerts devoted to recent scores, but last year the organization expanded its purview by assembling a chamber orchestra.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2010

Omnivorous scholar, fanatical Tolstoyan rigid vegetarian, amateur farmer and heterodox Slavic philologist, Bialystok-born Leo Wiener was an austere and aloof yet somehow lovable paterfamilias.

From Time Magazine Archive

Omnivorous enough to devour greedily tigers, dogs, rats, frogs, insects, and other sorts of food, unpopular elsewhere, they are distinguished by their ornaments as well.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

The teacher anticipated "Omnivorous" this time, but it did not come.

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert

Omnivorous children who are addicted to birch-chewing prefer these tender yellow-green leaves tinged with red, when newly put forth in June—"Youngsters" rural New Englanders call them then.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje