3. Get rid of the rats. Place unset, baited traps in a trap box on the rat path. Add new bait each day, and on the third day after the rats have started eating the bait, set the baited traps.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. The word filicide derives from the Latin words filius meaning son or filia meaning daughter and the suffix -cide meaning to kill, murder, or cause death.
filicide (countable and uncountable, plural filicides) 1  A person who kills his or her own child. 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 287: Ned is running, panicked, [...] running for the cold hard road and the sanctuary of the Brunch farm like a filicide caught in the act.