Usually means: Eats many types of food.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word polyphagous:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. polyphagous: Merriam-Webster
  2. polyphagous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polyphagous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. polyphagous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. polyphagous: Wordnik
  6. polyphagous: Wiktionary
  7. Polyphagous, polyphagous: Dictionary.com
  8. Polyphagous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Polyphagous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. polyphagous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Polyphagous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. polyphagous: FreeDictionary.org
  13. polyphagous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. polyphagous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polyphagous: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Polyphagous: HYPP Zoology
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See polyphagy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (polyphagous)

adjective:  Eating many types of food.
adjective:  (of a herbivorous species of insect) Feeding on many different species of host plants.

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