panivorous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin panis (“bread”) + vorare (“to devour”).
Adjective
[edit]panivorous (not comparable)
- (formal) Eating bread.
- c. 1825, Joseph Fouché, The Memoirs of Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto:
- But the people who persevered in their panivorous propensities, accused the emperor of selling our corn to the English.
References
[edit]- “panivorous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.