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ranacide

ranacide is the alternative form of ranicide.

Meaning of ranicide

Noun

ranicide (uncountable)

  1. The killing of a frog.
    • Although the bereaved family—the brothers and sisters, for anything we know to the contrary, of the ill-fated flirt who perished so suddenly in the bloom of his youth and in his opera hat—had pleaded with tears for a verdict of ranicide, and a big deodand on the ox, no honest frog could have...1872, S[amuel] Reynolds Hole, “Mr Chiswick on Bedding-Out”, in The Six of Spades: A Book about the Garden and the Gardener, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, pages 147–148

Origin of ranacide

From Latin rāna + -cide.

Questions about ranacide

What is ranacide the alternative form of?
Ranacide is the alternative form of ranicide.

Words near ranacide in the dictionary

  1. ran with
  2. ran with scissors
  3. ran with the hare and hunted with the hounds
  4. Rana
  5. ranachrome
  6. ranacide
  7. ranaconitine
  8. Ranald
  9. ranalexin
  10. Ranalli
  11. Ranallis

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