euryphagous

euryphagous [yoo-rif-uh-guh s, yuh-] ExamplesWord Origin adjective Ecology.

1. (of an animal) able to subsist on a wide variety of foods.

Compare stenophagous. Origin of euryphagous First recorded in 1925–30; eury- + -phagous Related formseu·ry·phage [yoo r-uh-feyj, yur-] /ˈyʊər əˌfeɪdʒ, ˈyɜr-/, noun Examples from the Web for euryphagous Historical Examples of euryphagous

The crow is euryphagous and, as shown by this study, the diets of crows a few miles apart may differ.

Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas

Dwight Platt