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ratticide

ratticide is the alternative form of raticide.

Meaning of raticide

Noun

raticide (countable and uncountable, plural raticides)

  1. rat poison.
    • "Why don't you use a raticide?" his friend suggested.
      "But, what is a raticide?" asked Kartar innocently.
      "It is a material which helps the rat to commit suicide," his friend told him, his eyes showing humour for a minute.1964, V. Balu, Day Dreams, page 93

Forms of ratticide

pluralratticides

Questions about ratticide

What is ratticide the alternative form of?
Ratticide is the alternative form of raticide.

Words near ratticide in the dictionary

  1. Ratterrees
  2. ratters
  3. rattery
  4. rattes
  5. ratti
  6. ratticide
  7. ratticides
  8. rattick
  9. rattie
  10. rattier
  11. ratties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ratticide (page history and authors); raticide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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