culturicide etymology

English word culturicide comes from English culture, English -icide

Detailed word origin of culturicide

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
culture English (eng) (transitive) To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something). (Compare cultivate.). (transitive) To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria). (Compare cultivate.) (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.. (botany) Cultivation.. (cartography) The details on a map that do not [...]
-icide English (eng)
culturicide English (eng) (countable) An instance of such destruction.. (uncountable) The systematic destruction of a culture, particularly one unique to a specific ethnicity, or a political, religious, or social group.

Words with the same origin as culturicide

Descendants of culture
apiculturist cultural culturalist culturally culturcide culturgen culturicidal culturism culturize cybercultural herpetocultural horticultural horticulturist intracultural microcultural multicultist multicultural noncultural pancultural pseudocultural sociocultural spatiocultural transcultural tricultural
Descendants of -icide
Christicide Islamicide adulticide amœbicide anaerobicidal anaerobicide attracticidal attracticide elephanticide femicide geronticide humanicide lousicide muscicide pediculicide roboticide slimicide sporicide termiticide weedicide