Fratricide

4 definitions found

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

  Fratricide \Frat"ri*cide\, n. [L. fratricidium a brother's
     murder, fr. fratricida a brother's murderer; frater, fratris,
     brother + caedere to kill: cf. F. fratricide.]
     1. The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. [L. fratricida: cf. F. fratricide.] One who murders or
        kills his own brother.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fratricide
       n 1: a person who murders their brother or sister
       2: the act of murdering your own brother or sister
       3: fire that injures or kills an ally [syn: {friendly fire}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "fratricide":
     aborticide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide,
     infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide, parricide,
     patricide, pesticide, regicide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide,
     uxoricide, vermicide
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FRATRICIDE, criminal law. He who kills his brother or sister. The crime of 
  such a person is also called fratricide.