pesticide

English

Wikipedia

Noun

pesticide (plural pesticides)

1. A substance, usually synthetic although sometimes biological, used to kill or contain the activities of pests

Related terms

• pest
• pesticidal
• fungicide
• germicide
• herbicide

Translations

substance used to kill or contain the activities of pests

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殺蟲劑 (cmn), 杀虫剂 (cmn) (shāchóngjì)

• Czech: pesticid (cs) m
• Esperanto: pesticido (eo)
• Faroese: týningarevni (fo) n
• Finnish: tuholaismyrkky (fi)
• French: pesticide (fr) m
• German: Pestizid (de) n
• Icelandic: skordýraeitur (is) n, plágueyðir (is) m, eyðingarlyf (is) n

• Italian: pesticida (it) m
• Japanese: 殺虫剤 (ja) (さっちゅうざい, satchūzai), 農薬 (ja) (のうやく, nōyaku)
• Polish: pestycyd (pl) m
• Portuguese: pesticida (pt) m
• Russian: пестицид (ru) (pesticíd) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: pestìcīd (sh) m
• Swedish: bekämpningsmedel (sv) n, pesticid (sv) c
• Turkish: pestisit (tr)

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Italian

Adjective

pesticide f

1. feminine plural of pesticida