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serpenticidal

serpenticidal adjective: serpent or snake killing.

Adjective

serpenticidal (not comparable)

  1. Serpent or snake killing.
    • But month by month the serpenticidal zeal of the population was more and more aroused, till, in March 1873, the number of snakes destroyed was 425,057, and the rewards not less than 5,313l.1874, The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, page 166

Origin of serpenticidal

From serpenticide + -al.

Questions about serpenticidal

What does serpenticidal mean?
Serpenticidal means serpent or snake killing.
What part of speech is serpenticidal?
Serpenticidal is an adjective.

Words near serpenticidal in the dictionary

  1. serpentcleides
  2. serpented
  3. serpentes
  4. serpentess
  5. serpentesses
  6. serpenticidal
  7. serpenticide
  8. serpenticides
  9. serpenticone
  10. serpenticones
  11. serpenticonic

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