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Merriam Webster's
adjective Etymology: Greek polyphagos eating too much, from poly- + -phagos -phagous Date: 1815 feeding on or utilizing many kinds of food • polyphagy noun
Oxford Reference Dictionary
adj. Zool. able to feed on various kinds of food.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Polyphagous Po*lyph"a*gous, a. [L. polyphagus, Gr. ?; poly`s much, many + ? to eat: cf. F. polyphage.] Eating, or subsisting on, many kinds of food; as, polyphagous animals.
