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 and divides as all--de-vou-ring under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.