Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A chemical substance used to kill insects.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which kills insects.
- n. The act of killing insects.
Wiktionary
- n. A substance used to kill insects
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder or spray.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a chemical used to kill insects
Etymologies
- insect + -cide (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As any environmentalist can tell you, insecticide is not very nice stuff — especially if you breathe it, which many Third World farmers do as they walk through their fields with backpack sprayers.”
“Phoxim is a short-term insecticide with a "knock-down" effect.”
“For those that don’t know Will – he doesn’t really believe in insecticide, but he and I both agreed this spider was big AND fast enough for the justification for the use of the can of spray.”
“Neonictinoids are inserted into the seed enabling the insecticide, which is water-soluble, to move throughout its system where ultimately the toxicity is transferred to the nectar and pollen.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Reese Halter: Neonictinoids -- Destroying the Web of Life
“I used a pyrethrin based insecticide, which is usually safe for other life forms, excluding insects.”
“There is a remedy in the powder known as insecticide, which, however, is very disagreeable upon books and shelves.”
“Among the 17 banned substances was boric acid, commonly used as an insecticide, which is mixed with noodles and meatballs to increase elasticity.”
“Malaria is preventable and treatable, though, with tools such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets, indoor spraying of insecticides, and anti-malarial drugs.”
Global Voices in English » Global Health: Twitter Face-Off To Fight Malaria
“Given that corn, used for both food and fuel, has been transformed through technological advances in chemical and genetic engineering to produce an insecticide in its cells (thereby ensuring profitability and promised yields given the increasing demands placed on this commodity) it is now regulated by the EPA as an "insecticide" (source: www. epa.gov) containing patented technologies licensed to Monsanto and is no longer simply reuglated by the FDA and USDA as "food".”
The Huffington Post: Robyn O'Brien: Bill Gates: A White Knight on a Trojan Horse?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘insecticide’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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ENVI - water protection
surface system, supply, substrate, subsoil, superficial deposit, sub-basin, stream gaging sta..., spillway, stratification, surface fresh water, stop valve, sprinkler and 398 more...
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ENVI - Collocations HIJKL
habitable climate, habitable space, habitat alteration, habitat destruction, habitat diversity, habitat fragmenta..., habitat of organisms, habitat of the bi..., habitat protection, habitat requirement, habitat selection, habitat structure and 3456 more...
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
abiota, aborigines, absorptive capacity, acceptable daily ..., acclimation, acid precipitation, acquired by weeds..., active solar heating, acute, adaptation, additives, aerosol and 447 more...
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-cide
patricide, suicide, matricide, fratricide, regicide, insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, barbicide, ethnocide, foeticide, genocide and 4 more...
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TECH - food processing
fillet, cereal, riser, puree, mixer, absorbent material, active agent, additive, animal fat, animal product, antibacterial, antifungal and 81 more...
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-cide words
aborticide to weedicide
aborticide, acaricide, algaecide, algicide, antipesticide, antisuicide, aphicide, bacillicide, bactericide, biocide, biopesticide, bullycide and 62 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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Apple -cide(r)?
felicide, fratricide, matricide, patricide, infanticide, sororicide, regicide, genocide, homicide, pesticide, bactericide, suicide and 36 more...
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The Other Cide of Death
Words ending in "cide"
matricide, patricide, infanticide, parricide, insecticide, filicide, acaricide, algicide, avicide, bactericide, barbicide, biocide and 59 more...
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