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fetocide

fetocide is the alternative form of feticide.

Meaning of feticide

Noun

feticide (countable and uncountable, plural feticides)

  1. The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.
    • Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh.2002, Daniel Schiff, Abortion in Judaism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68
  2. One who kills a fetus.

Forms of fetocide

pluralfetocides

Questions about fetocide

What is fetocide the alternative form of?
Fetocide is the alternative form of feticide.

Words near fetocide in the dictionary

  1. fetlock
  2. fetlocked
  3. fetlocks
  4. feto-
  5. feto-maternal
  6. fetocide
  7. fetocides
  8. fetoembryonic
  9. fetofetal
  10. fetogenesis
  11. fetoglobulin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fetocide (page history and authors); feticide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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