Usually means: Killing of one's own brother.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. fratricide: Merriam-Webster
  2. fratricide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fratricide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fratricide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fratricide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fratricide, fratricide: Wordnik
  7. fratricide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fratricide: Wiktionary
  9. fratricide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fratricide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fratricide: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fratricide: Dictionary.com
  13. fratricide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Fratricide (film), Fratricide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Fratricide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fratricide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fratricide: Rhymezone
  18. Fratricide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fratricide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. fratricide: FreeDictionary.org
  21. fratricide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. fratricide: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. fratricide: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fratricide: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fratricide: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fratricide: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fratricidal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The killing of one's brother (or sister).
noun:  (military, by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
noun:  (military, by extension) The undesirable situation where the separate missiles from a MIRV interfere with each other as they explode.
noun:  A person who commits fratricide.

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