muricide

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Mouse-killing (especially in rats). uncountable
    — That Tabby their feathers had frighten’d, / Amusing her jaws with the carnage of mice— / But lately her habits had grown very nice, / And her taste much more enlighten’d. / Could that delicate skin harbour murder within? / Those eyes so mildly winking, / Could they gaze on the pangs of the quiet and meek? / Could that soft velvet head, so pacific and sleek, / On muricide deeds be thinking?
  2. Someone or something that kills mice, rats, or voles. countable,uncommon
    — Muricide, (lat[in]) a mouſe-killer, a cowardly fellow.

词形变化

muricides plural

词汇关系

相关词
muricidal

词源

Borrowed from Latin mūricīdus (literally “mouse-killer”). By surface analysis, Latin mūs (“mouse”) + -icide (“killing; killer”).
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