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The killing of a stranger or foreigner. / (science fiction) The genocide of an entire alien species. / (US, colloquial) The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.

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xenocide

/ˈzɛnəsaɪd/

noun

The killing of a stranger or foreigner. / (science fiction) The genocide of an entire alien species. / (US, colloquial) The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.

The act of xenocide is considered a crime against humanity.

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The killing of a stranger or foreigner.

As notorious examples of ritual xenocide, suffice it to mention the foreigners sacrificed on the altar of the goddess Artemis in Colchis, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, 4.45) as well as the ritual of beheading strangers when the reaping season drew to a close, performed by the legendary Lityerses, king of Phyrgia. … [In] an act of ritual xenocide in a Cossack villafe … Cossacks kill a Turkish woman[.]

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