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Webster 1913 Edition

Insecticide

In-sec′ti-cide

,

Noun.

[

Insect

+ L.

caedere

to kill.]

An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder or spray.

–

In-sec′ti-ciˊdal

(#)

,

Adj.

Definition 2024

insecticide

insecticide

English

Noun

insecticide ‎(plural insecticides)

A substance used to kill insects.
- 2009, Handbook of Pesticides: Methods of Pesticide Residues Analysis (ISBN 1420082477)
  The dried seed powder of custard apple (Annona squamosa L; family: Annonaceae) has been used as an insecticide in India and many other tropical countries since ancient times.

Related terms

Translations

A substance used to kill insects

Chinese:
Mandarin: 殺蟲劑 (zh), 杀虫剂 (zh) ‎(shāchóngjì)
Czech: insekticid m
Dutch: insecticide (nl) n
Faroese: skordýratýnari m
Finnish: hyönteismyrkky (fi)
French: insecticide (fr) m
German: Insektengift n, Insektizid (de) n
Greek: εντομοκτόνο (el) n ‎(entomoktóno)

Italian: insetticida (it) f
Japanese: 殺虫剤 ‎(さっちゅうざい, satchūzai)
Navajo: chʼosh bee yigání
Portuguese: inseticida (pt) m
Romanian: insecticid (ro) n
Russian: инсектици́д (ru) m ‎(insekticíd)
Spanish: insecticida f
Swedish: insektsgift n
Tagalog: pamatay-kulisap

Anagrams

scienticide

French

Etymology

insecte +‎ -cide

Noun

insecticide m ‎(plural insecticides)

insecticide

References

“insecticide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).