Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Voracious

Voracious , adjective

[Latin vorax, -acis, from vorare to devour; akin to Greek {not transcribed} meat, food, {not transcribed} to devour, Sanskrit gar. Compare Devour.]

Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. — Dampier