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Larry's Pretty Good Word of the Day
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Dec. 1st, 2014
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panivorous
Dec
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2014
07:50 am
panivorous
(pa-NIV-er-uhs) - adj., eating bread.
Or possibly more properly, subsisting on bread. Like the weevils in ship's biscuit. Coined in the 1820s from Latin roots panis, bread + vorare, to devour.
---L.
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