floricide
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editfloricide (plural floricides)
- 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 […]