a. [f. L. auri-, comb. form of aurum gold + -vorus devouring.] Gold-devoring, feeding on gold.
1783. H. Walpole, Lett. C’tess Ossory, I. 151. Man is an aurivorous animal.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, vi. 465. The most aurivorous … population of the peninsula.
