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The word. Genus-cide.

It’s the killing of a genus, a race.

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So you dont have a source of this definition? Because in international law its defined quite differently, which is quite obvious since your definition, as given, would not classify many real instances as genocide.

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It’s the entomology of the word.

Legally they have a definition which broadens the concept to not just direct killing of a people, but also acts that lead to the eradication of a culture. For example: kidnapping the children of a group and raising the within your own culture is a genocidal act as it leads to the culture dying off, even though no actual killing has taken place.

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entomology

You mean etymology.

Entomology is the study of bugs.

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Yes and relevantly here it also ceases the necessity of total eradication.

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