panivorous

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adjective

Eating bread.

OriginLatin panis →
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Meanings

adjectivepanivorous (not comparable)
  1. formalnot comparableEating bread.

    But the people who persevered in their panivorous propensities, accused the emperor of selling our corn to the English.

    c. 1825, Joseph Fouché, The Memoirs of Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto

Origin

  1. Latinpanis“bread”
  2. Englishpanivorous

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

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APA

panivorous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panivorous

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“panivorous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panivorous. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “panivorous,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panivorous.

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