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filicides

filicides is the plural of filicide.

Meaning of filicide

Noun

filicide (countable and uncountable, plural filicides)

  1. The killing of one's own child.
    • it began by violating nature, and ends in filicide. (I, v)1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer
  2. A person who kills his or her own child.
    • Ned is running, panicked, […] running for the cold hard road and the sanctuary of the Brunch farm like a filicide caught in the act.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin Books, published 2006, page 287

Questions about filicides

What is filicides the plural of?
Filicides is the plural of filicide.

Words near filicides in the dictionary

  1. filicic
  2. filicic acid
  3. filicidal
  4. filicidally
  5. filicide
  6. filicides
  7. filiciform
  8. filicinean
  9. filicinin
  10. filicinoside
  11. filicoid

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