insecticide

English

Etymology

From French insecticide, as insect +‎ -icide.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

Translations

A substance used to kill insects

Armenian: միջատասպան (hy) (miǰataspan)
Catalan: insecticida m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 殺蟲劑／杀虫剂 (zh) (shāchóngjì)
Czech: insekticid (cs) m
Dutch: insecticide (nl) n
Faroese: skordýratýnari m
Finnish: hyönteismyrkky (fi)
French: insecticide (fr) m
Galician: insecticida m
German: Insektengift (de) n, Insektizid (de) n
Greek: εντομοκτόνο (el) n (entomoktóno)
Hungarian: rovarirtó (hu)
Indonesian: insektisida (id)
Irish: feithidicíd f, feithidnimh f
Italian: insetticida (it) f
Japanese: 殺虫剤 (ja) (さっちゅうざい, satchūzai)
Kazakh: жәндікжойғы (jändıkjoiğy)
Korean: 살충제 (ko) (salchungje)
Latin: insecticida f
Malay: insektisid
Navajo: chʼosh bee yigání
Norwegian:
Bokmål: insektmiddel n

Nynorsk: insektmiddel n
Persian: حشره‌کش (hašare-keš)
Polish: środek owadobójczy m
Portuguese: inseticida (pt) m
Romanian: insecticid (ro) n
Russian: инсектици́д (ru) m (insekticíd)
Spanish: insecticida (es) f
Swahili: dawa ya wadudu class n/n
Swedish: insektsgift n
Tagalog: pamatay-kulisap
Thai: ยาฆ่าแมลง (yaa-kâa-má-lɛɛng)
Tibetan: འབུ་སྨན ('bu sman)
Turkish: insektisit (tr)

Anagrams

scienticide

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed, probably from English insecticide.

Pronunciation

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Noun

insecticide n (plural insecticides or insecticiden)

pesticide

Further reading

insecticide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Etymology

From insecte +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sɛk.ti.sid/
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Noun

insecticide m (plural insecticides)

insecticide

Further reading

“insecticide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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