floricide

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin flōs +‎ -icide.

Noun[edit]

floricide (plural floricides)

  1. The killing of a flower.
    • 1910, Helen Rickey Albee, Hardy plants for cottage gardens, page 4:
      However, as I have said, through innumerable failures and guilty of a thousand floricides, I came to learn that a flower bed must be prepared, that seedlings must be protected from frost, sun and drought and too much water […]
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