aborticide

1. 1.

   a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion

   Synonymsabortifacientabortion-inducing drug

   Broaderdrug

   Narrowerabortion pill
2. 2.

   the act of destroying a fetus

   Synonymsfeticide

   Broaderinduced abortion

Other forms of aborticide

plural

aborticides·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aborticide

What does aborticide mean?

aborticide means "a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aborticide?

aborticide has 4 syllables: a-bor-ti-cide. The stress falls on "bor".

What is another word for aborticide?

Close synonyms include abortifacient, abortion-inducing drug, feticide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aborticide a common word?

aborticide is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.