insecticide
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French insecticide, as insect + -icide.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]insecticide (countable and uncountable, plural insecticides)
- A substance used to kill insects.
- 2009, Handbook of Pesticides: Methods of Pesticide Residues Analysis, →ISBN:
- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit]A substance used to kill insects
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[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed, probably from English insecticide.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]insecticide n (plural insecticides or insecticiden)
Further reading
[edit]insecticide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]insecticide m (plural insecticides)
Further reading
[edit]- “insecticide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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