Dec. 1st, 2014

panivorous

Dec. 1st, 2014 07:50 am
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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.

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