voracious

Etymology

From Latin vorāx, from vorō (“I devour”).

adj

1. Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
   Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions. 1910, Jack London, The Human Drift
2. Having a great appetite for anything.
   a voracious reader
   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. 1922, Walter Lippmann, chapter 7, in Public Opinion
   Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find. 29 Aug 2005, Nathan Thornburgh, “The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies”, in Time