Sciuricide

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The killing of a squirrel. rare, uncountable

    "Tree Moss as a Sciuricide.—A man who lives near Templeton has been telling the Times how he exterminated the squirrels with whose holes his land was honey-combed."

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"Tree Moss as a Sciuricide.—A man who lives near Templeton has been telling the Times how he exterminated the squirrels with whose holes his land was honey-combed."

Etymology

From Latin sciūrus + -icide.

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