Ursicide

Quick meaning: Ursicide is a noun meaning The killing of a bear.

Meaning

The killing of a bear.

More Meanings

1. One who kills a bear.

Example Sentences

It was entirely proper and in order to slay a deer or two while in the deer woods, and they did bring in a choice specimen or two for camp use or for friends at home. But Fernaldus was touched with ursimania. He would become an ursicide. The notion of possessing a bearskin rug pleased his fancy, and over the hill, in a tangle beside the brook, he had come across fresh signs of a monster Bruin.

One morning this week about five o'clock our brisk mountaineer neighbor, Jim Carr, loomed up in the kitchen, his usual magnetic manner a little subdued.[…]He had come to confess an Ursicide. It developed that he had carried out his threat to kill a certain bear, against all game preservation laws because it had been menacing his live stock, even causing his wife much worry about the safety of the children.

In 1982, Eureka City Manager Robert Stockwell and Parks and Recreation Director Ben Adan made the controversial decision to euthanize two adult bears and rehome their cubs as they allegedly could not afford to move the bears while their habitat was being rebuilt.[…] / People magazine, from which we got many of the details about the death of the two bears, called the incident “America’s most notorious ursicide.”

Word Forms

• ursicides

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sciuricide, ranicide, equicide, vulpicide, ansericide, monkeycide.

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