serpenticidal

adj

serpenticidal

adj

Etymology From serpenticide + -al.

1

Serpent or snake killing.

But month by month the serpenticidal zeal of the population was more and more aroused, till, in March 1873, the number of snakes destroyed was 425,057, and the rewards not less than 5,313l.1874, The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, page 166:

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