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humanicides

humanicides is the plural of humanicide.

Meaning of humanicide

Noun

humanicide (countable and uncountable, plural humanicides)

  1. The destruction of the human race.
    • Short of omnicide, the killing of everything, and of humanicide, the destruction of the whole human race, which a collapse of the ecosystem would bring about (a nuclear World War III could be a shortcut), surely genocide must be considered the supreme crime against mankind.1979 January-March, Christian Bay, “A human rights approach to transnational politics”, in Universal Humand Rights, volume 19
  2. A substance, person, or group that exterminates people.
    • You will pardon me for telling you just what I at the time thought, viz. that you needed a "humanicide" as badly as you needed insecticides.1895, Ohio State Horticultural Society, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, page 104

Questions about humanicides

What is humanicides the plural of?
Humanicides is the plural of humanicide.

Words near humanicides in the dictionary

  1. humanfree
  2. humanhood
  3. humaniac
  4. humaniacs
  5. humanicide
  6. humanicides
  7. humanics
  8. humanid
  9. humanification
  10. humanifications
  11. humanified

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