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Nov. 15, 2014
Word of the Day

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\pa-NIV-er-uhs\
adjective
1. subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
Quotes
But the people who persevered in their panivorous propensities, accused the emperor of selling our corn to the English.
-- Joseph Fouché, translated from the French, The Memoirs of Joseph Fouché, 1825
Origin
Panivorous is formed from Latin term pānis, "bread," and -vorous, an adjectival combining form meaning "eating, gaining sustenance from." It entered English in the 1820s.
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