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All-devouring   /ɔl-dɪvˈaʊərɪŋ/   Listen
All-devouring

adjective
1.
(of animals) both plant-eating and flesh-eating.






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"All-devouring" Quotes from Famous Books



... power—Death vanquished in his own territory! The sleeper has awoke a moral Samson, snapping the withs with which the King of Terrors had bound him. The star of Bethlehem shines, and the Valley of Achor becomes a door of hope. The all-devouring destroyer has to ...
— Memories of Bethany • John Ross Macduff

... Chigwin was at work in her garden, with her dress tucked up, a basket in her left hand, and a large pair of scissors in her right. Every flower that had begun to fade, every withered leaf and overgrown shoot fell before those fatal shears, and was caught in the all-devouring basket; and from time to time she bore a fresh load of snippets to their last resting-place. Her heart was in her work, and she would not rest until she had completed her round. From the clematis on the cottage wall and the ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant



Words linked to "All-devouring" :   creature, brute, fauna, animate being, beast, animal, omnivorous



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