infanticide
noun
in·fan·ti·cide
in-ˈfan-tə-ˌsīd 
1
: the killing of an infant
2
[Late Latin infanticida, from Latin infant-, infans + -i- + -cida -cide]
: one who kills an infant
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Counter-strategies to infanticide: The importance of cubs in determining lion habitat selection and social interactions
Ecology student at the University of Montpelier in France.
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Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
Safe haven laws were implemented to address the issues of child abandonment and infanticide.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 3 July 2024
For Trivedi, this is a problem begins with female infanticide.
—Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2015
For a while, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, hewed to the belief that males were simply wired differently; one of her initial forays into academic research explored the penchant for infanticide among male langur monkeys.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
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Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
Safe haven laws were implemented to address the issues of child abandonment and infanticide.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 3 July 2024
For Trivedi, this is a problem begins with female infanticide.
—Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2015
For a while, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, hewed to the belief that males were simply wired differently; one of her initial forays into academic research explored the penchant for infanticide among male langur monkeys.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
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infanticide
noun
in·fan·ti·cide
in-ˈfant-ə-ˌsīd
1
: the killing of an infant
2
: one who kills an infant
Legal Definition
infanticide
noun
in·fan·ti·cide
in-ˈfan-tə-ˌsīd
: the killing of a newly or recently born child
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