ovicide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Should she [the mother of a granivorous insect larva] attempt to reduce the competition faced by her offspring by some form of ovicide?"
- "Of course, fertilization is one necessary step in the process of development from an unfertilized ovum to a human being. But there are other necessary steps en route to becoming human. Far less confusion occurs if references to killing the ovum use just that language. Killing a fertilized ovum is ovicide, not murder! When the Roman Catholic bishops speak of the fertilized ovum as a “child,” they distort the discussion, […]"
- "Some parasitoids, however, avoid superparasitism by ovicide: a female who discovers a host that already contains a (conspecific) parasitoid egg finds that egg by probing with her ovipositor, kills it by puncturing, and then deposits her own."
- "A novel kind of Ovicide.—Last week, in a Gentleman’s park in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, a sheep was found greatly mangled, supposed by a dog."
- "Last week an old sheep died upon the commons some miles from town. […] [M]aster Joshua had to walk into Bow street, and pay forty shillings for being found guilty of ovicide."
- "Keen-eyed officers detect the mutton-bones which tell of unauthorised ovicide, and “clutches” of geese and chickens vanish as if by magic."