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floricide

floricide noun: the killing of a flower.

Noun

floricide (plural floricides)

  1. The killing of a flower.
    • However, as I have said, through innumerable failures and guilty of a thousand floricides, I came to learn that a flower bed must be prepared, that seedlings must be protected from frost, sun and drought and too much water[…]1910, Helen Rickey Albee, Hardy plants for cottage gardens, page 4

Forms of floricide

pluralfloricides

Origin of floricide

From Latin flōs + -icide.

Questions about floricide

What does floricide mean?
Floricide means the killing of a flower.
What part of speech is floricide?
Floricide is a noun.
What is the plural of floricide?
The plural of floricide is floricides.

Words near floricide in the dictionary

  1. floribundity
  2. florican
  3. floricane
  4. floricanes
  5. floricans
  6. floricide
  7. floricides
  8. floricolous
  9. floricomous
  10. floricultural
  11. floriculturally

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