Meanings
nounfloricide (plural floricides)
plural floricides
- The killing of a flower.
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[…]
1910, Helen Rickey Albee, Hardy plants for cottage gardens, page 4
Origin
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