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floricides

floricides is the plural of floricide.

Meaning of floricide

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

Questions about floricides

What is floricides the plural of?
Floricides is the plural of floricide.

Words near floricides in the dictionary

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

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