And omnivorous raccoons thrive on an endless buffet of everything from corn chips to cockroaches, helping them live ten times more densely in cities than in woodland habitats.
The omni- prefix has also given us similar words such as omniscient (meaning " all knowing" ) and omnivorous (describing one that eats both plants and animals).
One of the stanchest patrons was little Ned Higgins, the devourer of Jim Crow and the elephant, who to-day signalized his omnivorous prowess by swallowing two dromedaries and a locomotive.
No other of the Sierra animals of my acquaintance is better fed, not even the deer, amid abundance of sweet herbs and shrubs, or the mountain sheep, or omnivorous bears.
But it also had some leaf-shaped teeth that point to it having a more omnivorous diet than a typical theropod, because this tooth shape is what we see in some plant-eating dinos.