Muricide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Muricide is a noun meaning (countable, uncommon) Someone or something that kills mice, rats, or voles.
Meaning
(countable, uncommon) Someone or something that kills mice, rats, or voles.
More Meanings
- (chiefly uncountable) Mouse-killing (especially in rats).
Example Sentences
The mechanism of muricide behavior probably involves a discrete area of the brain, the amygdala.
The experimental models used included isolation and shock-induced conspecific aggression, muricide (mouse-killing), and ranicide (frog-killing).
This was generally supported by Banerjee (1974) who found that two injections of 200 ng 6-OHDA intraventricularly failed to reduce muricide in rats […]
Hyperemotionality of the latter rats included not only hyperreactivity similar to that observed in the septal rat but also a muricide of 90% in incidence, which is similar to rats with olfactory bulb ablations.
Word Forms
- muricides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ailurocide, ratticide, snailicide, mosquitocide, rodenticide, crimidine.
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