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matricide
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- Subclass of
- femicide
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- target
- mother
- topic's main category
- Category:Matricides
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- opposite of
- patricide
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Known or suspected matricides
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- References
thumb|Orestes Pursued by the Furies by [[William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Orestes is tormented by the Furies for the murder of his mother Clytemnestra.]]
Matricide (or maternal homicide) is the act of killing one's own mother.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “matricide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.