Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A chemical used to kill pests, especially insects.
Wiktionary
- n. A substance, usually synthetic although sometimes biological, used to kill or contain the activities of pests
WordNet 3.0
- n. a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)
Examples
“The term pesticide also includes these substances:”
“Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, molluscicides and various other substances used to control pests.”
“Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, and various other substances used to control pests.”
“EPA's actions under FQPA have been credited for a major reduction in pesticide risks, and in what was then considered revolutionary -- targeting pesticides in foods most commonly eaten by children.”
The Huffington Post: Donald Carr: Taxpayers Funding Pro-Pesticide PR Campaign
“When you read a pitch from some enviro group about some pesticide, knowing that this pesticide is unstable and degrades in air, you soon realize that these people are lying through their teeth, either that or are ignorant of chemistry and are just making stuff up because is sounds good.”
“I can see why he opposes the word pesticide; nevertheless, MA is a flavoring agent that isn’t harmful to humans.”
“Piperonyl Butoxide or N-Octyl Bicycloheptene Dicarboximide Not poisons on their own, these so-called pesticide synergists block the enzyme that breaks down pyrethrin in insects.”
“In addition, under FIFRA, a substance used as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant is defined as a pesticide and regulated accordingly.”
“Researchers state that a simple modification of the grape could lead to a greater resistance to disease and a decrease in the use of pesticide, which is often a necessary evil of wine making.”
“'Mosquitoes'' are what locals call the pesticide or herbicide crop-spraying machines pulled by tractors.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pesticide’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 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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AGRI - apiculture
acacia, alfalfa, Arbutus unedo, ash content, baker's honey, Banksia menziesii, bee plant, Bell heather, blackberry honey, blend of honeys, blossom honey, borage and 183 more...
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ENVI - water protection
population equiva..., absorptive proper..., abstraction rate, abundance, acaricide, accidental pollution, admixture, adsorption, agglomeration, algicide, alkalinity, angiosperms and 398 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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Down on the Farm
All things farm and agriculture related.
barn, tractor, cow, hay, horse, pig, corn, plough, irrigation, subsidies, crops, plant and 260 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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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 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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Apple -cide(r)?
felicide, fratricide, matricide, patricide, infanticide, sororicide, regicide, genocide, homicide, pesticide, bactericide, suicide and 36 more...
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12th Grade Unit 6
herbicide, matricide, genocide, fratricide, mesomorphic, aesthetic, ectomorphic, anthropomorphic, metamorphosis, patricide, pesticide, regicide and 3 more...
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Lucid Nutrition
camu camu, spirulina, wheat grass, longevity, macrobiotics, ayurveda, supplement, genome, epigenetics, homeopathy, vegetarian, raw food and 60 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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