equicidal

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to equicide.
   • The equicidal bull was finished in due course like his fellows, and at length but one remained, a brave, tough youngster that played the game vigorously, but yet without great malice, and to lamentably futile purpose. -...
   • This equicidal virus, which causes equine and human outbreaks, also has clinical characteristics which distinguish it from the sylvatic type. - 1976, Animal Health: Programs and Trends in the Americas, 1976, page 81,...
   • In his enormously affecting play Equus, Peter Shaffer uses horses as a Christ symbol and the “sharp chains” in the horses’ mouths as a metaphor for Christ’s agonies. Much of the dramatic impact of the play is projected...