all-devouring

1. 1.

   (of animals) both plant-eating and flesh-eating

   Similaromnivorous

   animal

Questions about all-devouring

What does all-devouring mean?

all-devouring means "(of animals) both plant-eating and flesh-eating".

How many syllables are in all-devouring?

all-devouring has 4 syllables: all--de-vou-ring. The stress falls on "de".

Is all-devouring a common word?

all-devouring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.