phytolatry

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English

Etymology

From phyto- +‎ -latry.

Noun

phytolatry (uncountable)

  1. The worship of plants.
    • 2010, Euclides da Cunha, Rebellion in the Backlands, page 132:
      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.

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