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Infanticide
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example Sentences
- The biologists agree that infanticide by subordinate females may occur in a larger number of species than has been reported.
- The prosecutor's accusation was infanticide by strangling.
- Infanticide by incoming males is common in other species.
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infanticide in·fan·ti·cide (ĭn-fān'tĭ-sīd')
n.
The act of killing an infant.
The practice of killing newborns.
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