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xenocides

xenocides is the plural of xenocide.

Meaning of xenocide

Noun

xenocide (countable and uncountable, plural xenocides)

  1. The killing of a stranger or foreigner.
    • As notorious examples of ritual xenocide, suffice it to mention the foreigners sacrificed on the altar of the goddess Artemis in Colchis, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, 4.45) as well as the ritual of beheading strangers when the reaping season drew...2009, Andrei Oisteanu, Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes
  2. The genocide of an entire alien species.
    • The age that began with one xenocide attempted had now ended with other xenocides prevented or, at least, postponed.1996, Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
  3. (US, colloquial) The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.

Questions about xenocides

What is xenocides the plural of?
Xenocides is the plural of xenocide.

Words near xenocides in the dictionary

  1. xenochimeric
  2. xenochronous
  3. xenochrony
  4. xenocidal
  5. xenocide
  6. xenocides
  7. xenoclast
  8. xenoclasts
  9. xenoclitic
  10. xenocongrid
  11. xenocongrids

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