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muricidal

muricidal adjective: pertaining to muricide.

Adjective

muricidal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to muricide.
    • […] and that bulbectomy-induced increases in muricidal behavior of rats appeared to be related to the destruction of tissue […]1977, F V DeFeudis, Patricia A F DeFeudis, Elements of the behavioral code
  2. Possessing the muricide instinct; inclined to kill mice.
    • For this study, muricidal animals were injected with either imipramine (20 mg/kg), atropine (20 mg/kg), or an equivalent volume of saline intraperitoneally […]1981, S J Enna, Jeffrey B Malick, Elliott Richelson, Antidepressants: neurochemical, behavioral, and clinical perspectives

Origin of muricidal

From Latin mūs, mūris + -cidal.

Words formed from muricidal

Questions about muricidal

What does muricidal mean?
Muricidal means pertaining to muricide.
What part of speech is muricidal?
Muricidal is an adjective.

Words near muricidal in the dictionary

  1. murices
  2. muricholic
  3. muricholic acid
  4. muricholic acids
  5. muricid
  6. muricidal
  7. muricide
  8. muricides
  9. muricids
  10. muricin
  11. muricine

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