Phytolatry

Origin

- + latry + -

Full definition of phytolatry

Noun

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