euthanol
n.— «An officer from the Berkeley Humane Society presented the City Council with a syringe intended to represent a dose of euthanol, the lethal drug used to destroy animals.» —“Animal Lovers Squawk Over Pet Ordinance” by Gregory Wesley in University of California, Berkeley Daily Californian Nov. 18, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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