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  • adjective Acting as a piscicide; fatal to fish.

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  • But, as luck would have it, Victor ripped off his sandals and socks, I know, sandals and socks, what can I do with him? and tore into the atrium and ran through the water scaring all the other fish and grabbed the piscicidal koi and placed him back in the water and he swam away!

    The Nervous Breakdown 2010

  • RUPPEL, E.G. and BARNES, D.K. (1972) Tephrosia vogelii: a source of rotenoids for insecticidal and piscicidal use.

    Chapter 5 1953

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