vampiricide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They [vampire bats] roost extremely close to each other and they groom each other—both characteristics that favor transfer of vampiricides between individuals and that make it unnecessary to treat more than a few members of each roost."
- "In addition, and related to the increase in extensive cattle raising, the use of vampiricides—substances that are used to kill vampire bats—also has increased."
- "Despite the widespread use of vampiricide for at least 50 years, astonishingly few investigators have tested whether culling vampire bats reduces rabies virus cases in livestock."
- "Some manuals on the proper method for vampiricide give explicit instructions that this stake be fashioned from the wood identical to that used in Christ's cross (though some debate arises regarding exactly what type of wood that is)."
- "[Jeffrey] Rosenberg persists in confusing the various means of vampiricide. In one memorable moment, he reaches underneath his shirt to extract an amulet to ward of Dracula’s advances. The audience, as well as the Count, assumes a cross will be forthcoming; instead, Rosenberg brings forth a Star of David, a symbol which has no effect on the bemused Dracula."
- "He’d nearly been stabbed, and I’d nearly committed vampiricide. That had been the finale in the bustle of our supernaturally busy weeks."
Etymology
From vampire + -icide.