Phytolatry

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The worship of plants. uncountable

    "An impressive chapel to this day commemorates his stay there; but more venerated than this, perhaps, is the little tree at the entrance to the town which was for a long time the object of an extraordinary phytolatry."

Synonyms

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idolatryidolization

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"An impressive chapel to this day commemorates his stay there; but more venerated than this, perhaps, is the little tree at the entrance to the town which was for a long time the object of an extraordinary phytolatry."

Etymology

From phyto- + -latry.

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