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eugenicide

eugenicide is the alternative spelling of eugenocide.

Meaning of eugenocide

Noun

eugenocide (uncountable)

  1. The elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.
    • Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations.1971, Intellectual Digest - Volume 2, page 286

Questions about eugenicide

What is eugenicide the alternative spelling of?
Eugenicide is the alternative spelling of eugenocide.

Words near eugenicide in the dictionary

  1. Eugenians
  2. eugenias
  3. eugenic
  4. eugenical
  5. eugenically
  6. eugenicide
  7. eugenicism
  8. eugenicist
  9. eugenicists
  10. eugenicize
  11. eugenics

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