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canicidal

canicidal adjective: pertaining or inclined to canicide.

Adjective

canicidal (comparative more canicidal, superlative most canicidal)

  1. Pertaining or inclined to canicide.
    • The canicidal properties of this modern reviver of the Cynophontis [a festival in Argos where dogs were killed] are well known.1838, [Laughton Osborn], The Vision of Rubeta, an Epic Story of the Island of Manhattan, Boston, Mass., page 52
    • Dog Mutton.—The Journal of Commerce, world-renowned for its canicidal propensities, seems ambitious of an equally wide-spread canivorous reputation. It is not enough for that print that poor Tray be killed—it wants him to be eaten as well.1847 December 28, Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, volume XIII, number 4074, Buffalo, N.Y., column 2

Forms of canicidal

comparativemore canicidal
superlativemost canicidal

Origin of canicidal

From canicide + -al.

Questions about canicidal

What does canicidal mean?
Canicidal means pertaining or inclined to canicide.
What part of speech is canicidal?
Canicidal is an adjective.

Words near canicidal in the dictionary

  1. Caniac
  2. Caniambo
  3. Caniapiskau
  4. Canibas
  5. Canichana
  6. canicidal
  7. canicide
  8. canicides
  9. canicola fever
  10. canicross
  11. canicrosser

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