Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Eating all kinds of food; omnivorous; pamphagous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Eating all kinds of food.

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  • adjective Eating all kinds of food.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • George Harvey, a patron of the dramas of Charles Rann Kennedy, a spanker of children, an entertainer at his board of the visiting clergyman, a pantophagous subscriber, a silk hat wearer -- in brief, a leading citizen.

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

  • He refused to eat, in fact, and remembering what Peter had once said about my first-born being pantophagous, I began to suspect that I had a very sick boy on my hands.

    The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

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