单词 | passericidal |
释义 | † passericidaladj. Obsolete. That kills sparrows; sparrow-killing.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [adjective] slaughtered1594 sphagian1607 in at the kill1814 serpenticidal1823 vulpicidal1826 ovicidal1847 insecticidal1857 ursicidal1857 passericidala1876 a1876 M. Collins Thoughts in Garden (1880) I. 32 They will be glad to bring back the exiled birds, after the manner of certain passericidal villagers whom Longfellow has immortalised. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adj.a1876 |
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