Home › Words › S › sciuricidesciuricidesciuricide means the killing of a squirrel.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sciuricide ranks #32,509 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Latin sciūrus + -icide.nounThe killing of a squirrel.e.g.“Tree Moss as a Sciuricide.—A man who lives near Templeton has been telling the Times how he exterminated the squirrels with whose holes his land was honey-combed.” — [1889 April 6, Pacific Rural Press, volume XXXVII, number 13, San Francisco, Calif., page 325:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).