Quotations, my emphases:
From the Oxford English Dictionary. A nonce word is one that appears
just once, apparently coined for the occasion.
avicide, n.
Pronunciation: /ˈævɪsaɪd/
Etymology: < Latin avis bird + -cide comb. form2.
nonce-wd.
The slaughter of birds, bird-shooting.
1834 L. Hunt in London Jrnl. No. 22 A stout fellow, in a
jacket and gaiters and the rest of the costume of avicide.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885).
Fom Wikipedia:
An avicide is any substance (normally, a chemical)
which can be used to kill birds.
Commonly used avicides include strychnine, DRC-1339
(3-chloro-4-methylaniline hydrochloride, Starlicide) and CPTH
(3-chloro-p-toluidine, the free base of Starlicide), and Avitrol
(4-aminopyridine). Chloralose is also used as an avicide. In the
past, highly concentrated formulations of parathion in diesel oil
were also used, applied by aircraft spraying over the nesting
colonies of the birds.[1]
From OUP's A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
(2013):
A pesticide which can be used to kill birds
Regards - David
On 31/12/2014 2:27 PM, Martin
Butterfield wrote:
If one wished to develop a less human focused
word one could add "icide" to a latin word meaning offspring.
Consulting an on-line dictionary I got three words for
offspring : foetus; fetus and subolis. The use of foetus
seems a tad confusing as in mammals it is now used mainly to
cover young before birth.
So perhaps "subolicide" would fit the bill (or
indeed The Bill).
Martin
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