Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

felinicide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fe-lin-i-cide
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The killing of a cat.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Care killed the cat, for instance ; but Care was not guilty of felinicide."
"If he hated cats, there had been a dozen contrivances in the attic to suit the purpose of felinicide."
"After the pastor died, Uncle moved in with his widow sister; and as soon as little Orlando initiated his felinicides, filling the house with pots of cat organs and cremating the remains in the backyard, his uncle started to call him Buchenwald (pronounced Butchanval), which finally slimmed down to Butcha."
"Unable to safeguard the last stragglers of various endangered species, the worldwide ecological community is, in some areas, attempting full-on felinicide. People bomb cats' lairs with targeted viruses and deadly poisons."

Etymology

From feline + -i- + -cide.

Usage

Inflected Forms

felinicides (plural)

Synonyms

ailurocide caticide catslaughter felicide

Questions

What does felinicide mean?: The killing of a cat.
Where does felinicide come from?: From feline + -i- + -cide.

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