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muricides

muricides is the plural of muricide.

Meaning of muricide

Noun

muricide (countable and uncountable, plural muricides)

  1. (uncountable) Mouse-killing (especially in rats).
    • That Tabby their feathers had frighten’d, / Amusing her jaws with the carnage of mice— / But lately her habits had grown very nice, / And her taste much more enlighten’d. / Could that delicate skin harbour murder within? / Those eyes so mildly winking, / Could they gaze on the pangs of the quiet...1829 February 20, Θ [pseudonym], “‘An ower true tale.’”, in The Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, and Huntingdonshire Gazette, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] James Hodson, […], page [4], column 1
  2. (countable, uncommon) Someone or something that kills mice, rats, or voles.
    • Muricide, (lat[in]) a mouſe-killer, a cowardly fellow.[1658, Edward Phillips, compiler, “Muricide”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], →OCLC, column 2

Questions about muricides

What is muricides the plural of?
Muricides is the plural of muricide.

Words near muricides in the dictionary

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

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