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sororicides

sororicides is the plural of sororicide.

Meaning of sororicide

Noun (1)

sororicide (countable and uncountable, plural sororicides)

  1. The killing of one's sister.
    • Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group...

Noun (2)

sororicide (plural sororicides)

  1. A person who kills his or her sister.

Questions about sororicides

What is sororicides the plural of?
Sororicides is the plural of sororicide.

Words near sororicides in the dictionary

  1. sororial
  2. sororially
  3. sororicidal
  4. sororicidally
  5. sororicide
  6. sororicides
  7. sororin
  8. sororise
  9. sororised
  10. sororises
  11. sororising

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