floricide

English

Etymology

From Latin flōs +‎ -icide.

Noun

floricide (plural floricides)

1. The killing of a flower.
   • 1910, Helen Rickey Albee, Hardy plants for cottage gardens, page 4:

     However, as I have said, through innumerable failures and guilty of a thousand floricides, I came to learn that a flower bed must be prepared, that seedlings must be protected from frost, sun and drought and too much water […]