panivorous

English

Etymology

From Latin panis (“bread”) + vorare (“to devour”).

Adjective

panivorous (not comparable)

1. (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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “panivorous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)