monkeycide

Noun

1. The killing of a monkey.
   • I do not think I could commit Monkeycide myself. They look, as lady Macbeth says, so like our Fathers. - 1834, Thomas Hood, “Summer.—A Winter Eclogue.”, in The Comic Annual, London: Charles Tilt, […]:
   • This consideration, together with our having nobler game in view, prevented us from committing monkeycide, although the temptation was always in sight. - 1839, Major E. Napier, “The Perkhal Lake—The Stirrup Cup—Sport in...
   • But happily the reflection, ‘What would Professor Huxley say?’ joined with a certain ‘am-I-not-a-man-and-a-brother’ expression about the creature, checked me in time, and saved me from a crime worse than even...