Noun: vulpicide
| Singular | vulpicide |
| Plural | vulpicides |
Sample Sentences
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Some of the foxes found dead on railway lines, by the way, have been put there after death by vulpicides. [1910, Owen Jones, Marcus Woodward, A gamekeeper's note-book:]
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‘Seven months I've been worriting my guts out in London, and all on the off-chance of getting a seat in the office of that sanctimonious old vulpicide.’ [1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 121:]
Nouns inflected like vulpicide
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin vulpēs or vulpis (“fox”) + -cide. See: Latin Nouns '
vulpēs'.