Adjective

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Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor herbivorous.

(figuratively) Having an interest in a variety of subjects.

2003 Winchester, Simon , The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary , New York: Oxford University Press. p72:

:* He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]

Adjective

(en adjective)

Full of ardor; fervent, passionate.

* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 43

This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.

* {{quote-book

, year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=4 citation , passage=I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.}}

Burning; glowing; shining.