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theriocides

theriocides is the plural of theriocide.

Meaning of theriocide

Noun

theriocide (countable and uncountable, plural theriocides)

  1. The killing of a non-human animal by a human.
  2. Actions caused by humans which lead to the death of non-human animals, such as deforestation.

Questions about theriocides

What is theriocides the plural of?
Theriocides is the plural of theriocide.

Words near theriocides in the dictionary

  1. theridiosomatid
  2. theridiosomatids
  3. Therien
  4. therio-
  5. theriocide
  6. theriocides
  7. theriodont
  8. theriodonts
  9. theriogenological
  10. theriogenologist
  11. theriogenologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: theriocides (page history and authors); theriocide (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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