Definition of "polyphagous" []

• Feeding on many different kinds of food: polyphagous insects or birds. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "My stink bug is, apparently, polyphagous poly=many, phage=eat, and a threat to agriculture."
• "_Berberis vulgaris_, which shows that Cynthia is also a polyphagous species."
• "Though a Bombyx be polyphagous in a state of nature, yet I think most species have a tree proper to themselves, on which they are more at home than on any other plant."