phytolatry

phytolatry

English

Etymology

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.

Hyponyms

• dendrolatry