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panivorous

panivorous adjective: eating bread.

Adjective

panivorous (not comparable)

  1. (formal) Eating 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 of panivorous

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

Questions about panivorous

What does panivorous mean?
Panivorous means eating bread.
What part of speech is panivorous?
Panivorous is an adjective.

Words near panivorous in the dictionary

  1. panisse
  2. panisses
  3. Panitan
  4. panitumumab
  5. Panitya
  6. panivorous
  7. Panixtlahuaca
  8. Paniyan
  9. Paniyans
  10. Panjab
  11. Panjabee

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