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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. someone who kills his or her parent;

2. the murder of your own father or mother;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Parricide \Par"ri*cide\, n. [F., fr. L. parricida; pater father + caedere to kill. See Father, Homicide, and cf. Patricide.] [1913 Webster] 1. Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor. [1913 Webster] 2. [L. parricidium.] The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

parricide n 1: someone who kills his or her parent 2: the murder of your own father or mother
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "parricide": aborticide, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, microbicide, patricide, pesticide, regicide, rodenticide, sororicide, suicide, uxoricide, vermicide
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

PARRICIDE, civil law. One who murders his father; it is applied, by extension, to one who murders his mother, his brother, his sister, or his children. The crime committed by such person is also called parricide. Merl. Rep. mot Parricide; Dig. 48, 9, 1, 1. 3, 1. 4. 2. This offence is defined almost in the same words in the penal code of China. Penal Laws of China, B. 1, s. 2, Sec. 4. 3. The criminal was punished by being scourged, and afterwards sewed in a sort of sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and then thrown into the sea, or into a river; or if there were no water, he was thrown in this manner to wild beasts. Dig. 48, 9, 9; C. 9, 17, 1, 1. 4, 18, 6; Bro. Civ; Law, 423; Wood's Civ. Law, B. 3, c. 10, s. 9. 4. By the laws of France parricide is the crime of him who murders his father or mother, whether they, be the legitimate, natural or adopted parents of the individual, or the murder of any other legitimate ascendant. Code Penal, art. 297. This crime is there punished by the criminal's being taken to the place of execution without any other garment than his shirt, barefooted, and with his head covered with a black veil. He is then exposed on the scaffold while an officer of the court reads his sentence to the spectators; his right hand is then cut off, and he is immediately put to death. Id. art. 13. 5. The common law does not define this crime, and makes no difference between its punishment, and the punishment of murder. 1 Hale's P. C. 380; Prin. Penal Law, c. 18, Sec. 8, p. 243; Dalloz, Dict. mot Homicide.