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Muricide vs Municide - What's the difference?

muricide | municide |

As nouns the difference between muricide and municide

is that muricide is a mouse-killing instinct in rats while municide is the demise of a city through economic collapse or disincorporation.

muricide

English

Noun

(-)
  • (biology) A mouse-killing instinct in rats.
  • *1977 , Israel Hanin, Earl Usdin, Animal Models in Psychiatry and Neurology
  • *:The mechanism of muricide behavior probably involves a discrete area of the brain, the amygdala.
  • *1984 , Stephen T Mason, Catecholamines and Behaviour
  • *:This was generally supported by Banerjee (1974) who found that two injections of 200 ng 6-OHDA intraventricularly failed to reduce muricide in rats...

    • municide

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The demise of a city through economic collapse or disincorporation.
  • * 1986 , " No To A City Income Tax", Chicago Tribune , 12 May 1986:
    • If he succeeds, it will be only because a lot of legislators want to see if Chicago really is foolish enough to commit municide , or whatever it's called when a city kills itself economically.

    Quotations

    * English words suffixed with -cide