"canicidal" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From canicide + -al.",
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      "form": "more canicidal",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1838, [Laughton Osborn], The Vision of Rubeta, an Epic Story of the Island of Manhattan, Boston, Mass., page 52:",
          "text": "The canicidal properties of this modern reviver of the Cynophontis [a festival in Argos where dogs were killed] are well known.",
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        {
          "ref": "1847 December 28, Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, volume XIII, number 4074, Buffalo, N.Y., column 2:",
          "text": "Dog Mutton.—The Journal of Commerce, world-renowned for its canicidal propensities, seems ambitious of an equally wide-spread canivorous reputation. It is not enough for that print that poor Tray be killed—it wants him to be eaten as well.",
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          "ref": "2001 April 27, Steven Rea, “‘Action Asia,’ a set of fast, twisty, violent thrillers from the Far East”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 172d year, number 331, Philadelphia, Pa., page W22:",
          "text": "Echoing the canine theme of the new Mexican hit Amores Perros, Bong Joon-ho’s Barking Dogs Never Bite is a dark, twisted comedy about a deadbeat college lecturer who becomes obsessed with the relentless yapping of a neighbor’s pooch — and sets out to silence the animal once and for all. Set in a high-rise Seoul apartment building, the film is one of several canicidal tales featured in this year’s festival.",
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        "Pertaining or inclined to canicide."
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          "canicide",
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  "word": "canicidal"
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  "etymology_text": "From canicide + -al.",
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          "ref": "1838, [Laughton Osborn], The Vision of Rubeta, an Epic Story of the Island of Manhattan, Boston, Mass., page 52:",
          "text": "The canicidal properties of this modern reviver of the Cynophontis [a festival in Argos where dogs were killed] are well known.",
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        {
          "ref": "1847 December 28, Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, volume XIII, number 4074, Buffalo, N.Y., column 2:",
          "text": "Dog Mutton.—The Journal of Commerce, world-renowned for its canicidal propensities, seems ambitious of an equally wide-spread canivorous reputation. It is not enough for that print that poor Tray be killed—it wants him to be eaten as well.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2001 April 27, Steven Rea, “‘Action Asia,’ a set of fast, twisty, violent thrillers from the Far East”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 172d year, number 331, Philadelphia, Pa., page W22:",
          "text": "Echoing the canine theme of the new Mexican hit Amores Perros, Bong Joon-ho’s Barking Dogs Never Bite is a dark, twisted comedy about a deadbeat college lecturer who becomes obsessed with the relentless yapping of a neighbor’s pooch — and sets out to silence the animal once and for all. Set in a high-rise Seoul apartment building, the film is one of several canicidal tales featured in this year’s festival.",
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