English Dictionary

voracious

/vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/

adj

Wanting or devouring great quantities of food. / Having a great appetite for anything.

He has a voracious appetite and can eat a whole pizza by himself.

意味（1）

Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

I never had so much as . . . one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.

意味（2）

Having a great appetite for anything.

If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.