zoocide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The systematic or targeted killing of animals.
Example Sentences
- "Much later, however, during the Permian period, there was a second act of zoocide, one which is less known and less popular among filmmakers ..."
- "When the bounty system alone failed to kill all the wolves, the federal government underwrote a kind of zoocide using bounties, trapping, hunting, ..."
- "Our proposal is that we speak of zoocide in cases where animals are systematically put to death in large numbers. Zoocide cannot be placed on the same level ..."
Etymology
From zoo- + -cide.