pesticide
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɛstɨsaɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) enPR: pĕsʹtĭ-sīd', IPA(key): /ˈpɛstɪ̈ˌsaɪd/
- Hyphenation: pes‧ti‧cide
Audio (US) (file)
Noun edit
pesticide (countable and uncountable, plural pesticides)
- Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
- 2001, David McConnell, The Good Earth: Companion Guide, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, →ISBN, page 1.12:
- Too much pesticide was applied and then washed from the fields by rains and surface runoff.
- 2011, Allan S. Felsot, Pesticides and Health: Myths vs. Realities, page 4:
- Pesticide and fertilizer use has been recorded since ancient times, […]
- 2013, Meg Stout, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening, →ISBN:
- Diluted neem oil can be effective as a pesticide and can control various fungal diseases, such as powdery mildew, on animals and plants.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pesticide.
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Translations edit
substance used to kill or repress the activities of pests
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Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed, probably from English pesticide.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pesticide n (plural pesticides or pesticiden)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- pesticide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
pesticide m (plural pesticides)
Further reading edit
- “pesticide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Adjective edit
pesticide