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pedicide

pedicide noun: the murder of a child.

Noun

pedicide (countable and uncountable, plural pedicides)

  1. The murder of a child.
    • Pedicide victims are much apt to be killed by close relatives than are adult homicide victims.1991, L. Adelson, “Pedicide revisited. The slaughter continues.”, in The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Forms of pedicide

pluralpedicides

Questions about pedicide

What does pedicide mean?
Pedicide means the murder of a child.
What part of speech is pedicide?
Pedicide is a noun.
What is the plural of pedicide?
The plural of pedicide is pedicides.

Words near pedicide in the dictionary

  1. pedicellately
  2. pedicellation
  3. pedicelled
  4. pedicellus
  5. pedicels
  6. pedicide
  7. pedicides
  8. pediciid
  9. pediciids
  10. pedicle
  11. pedicled

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