xenocide

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The killing of a stranger or foreigner. countable,uncountable
    — 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 to a close, performed by the legendary Lityerses, king of Phyrgia. [...] [In] an act of ritual xenocide in a Cossack villafe [...] Cossacks kill a Turkish woman[.]
  2. The genocide of an entire alien species. countable,uncountable
    — The age that began with one xenocide attempted had now ended with other xenocides prevented or, at least, postponed.
  3. The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species. US,colloquial,countable,uncountable

词形变化

xenocides plural

词汇关系

衍生词
xenocidal

词源

From xeno- + -cide.
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