Feticide

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Feticide \Fe"ti*cide\ (? or ?), n. [Written also {f[oe]ticide}.]
     [Fetus + L. caedere to kill.] (Med. & Law)
     The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of
     procuring an abortion.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  feticide
       n : the act of destroying a fetus [syn: {aborticide}]