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bovicidal

bovicidal adjective: pertaining or inclined to bovicide.

Adjective

bovicidal (comparative more bovicidal, superlative most bovicidal)

  1. Pertaining or inclined to bovicide.
    • But if the social scientists and educators undertake such a project jointly in a spirit of experimentation and with bovicidal collaboration against the accumulated sacred cows, the possibilities of success are greatly enhanced.1964, The School Dropout, National Education Association, page 100
    • Particular rules: a famous, and much discussed, example from Biblical law is the rule relating to the bovicidal ox: Exodus 21:35, in terms of content, is identical to paragraph 53 of the laws of Eshnunna.1980, Bernard S. Jackson, “History, Dogmatics and Halakhah”, in Jewish Law in Legal History and the Modern World, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 5

Forms of bovicidal

comparativemore bovicidal
superlativemost bovicidal

Origin of bovicidal

From bovicide + -al.

Questions about bovicidal

What does bovicidal mean?
Bovicidal means pertaining or inclined to bovicide.
What part of speech is bovicidal?
Bovicidal is an adjective.

Words near bovicidal in the dictionary

  1. bovial
  2. bovichthyid
  3. bovichthyids
  4. bovichtid
  5. bovichtids
  6. bovicidal
  7. bovicide
  8. bovicides
  9. bovicin
  10. bovicins
  11. boviculture

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