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fetucide

fetucide is the alternative spelling 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.

Origin of fetucide

From fetus + -cide.

Questions about fetucide

What is fetucide the alternative spelling of?
Fetucide is the alternative spelling of feticide.

Words near fetucide in the dictionary

  1. fettucine
  2. fettucini
  3. fettucinis
  4. fetty
  5. Fettys
  6. fetucide
  7. fetuin
  8. fetuine
  9. fetuines
  10. fetuins
  11. fetus

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