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nepoticidal

nepoticidal adjective: of or pertaining to nepoticide.

Adjective

nepoticidal (comparative more nepoticidal, superlative most nepoticidal)

  1. Of or pertaining to nepoticide.
    • Taizong's failure fooled no one. Indeed, one of Taizong's own sons may well have been unhinged by his father's obvious fratricidal and nepoticidal actions. These personal considerations directly affected Taizong's policy decisions, and thus warrant some discussion.2008, Peter Lorge, “The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao Border”, in Don J. Wyatt, editor, Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period, New York...

Forms of nepoticidal

comparativemore nepoticidal
superlativemost nepoticidal

Origin of nepoticidal

From nepoticide + -al, from oblique stem of Latin nepōs, nepōtis (“nephew”) + -icidal.

Questions about nepoticidal

What does nepoticidal mean?
Nepoticidal means of or pertaining to nepoticide.
What part of speech is nepoticidal?
Nepoticidal is an adjective.

Words near nepoticidal in the dictionary

  1. nepotarchy
  2. nepotation
  3. nepotations
  4. nepotic
  5. nepotically
  6. nepoticidal
  7. nepoticide
  8. nepoticides
  9. nepotious
  10. nepotism
  11. nepotism babies

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