culicide

English

Etymology

Culex +‎ -cide

Noun

culicide (countable and uncountable, plural culicides)

1. Any insecticide that kills mosquitos
   • 1906 April 12, “Experiments in the use of culicide for mosquito destruction”, in Engineering News-record, volume 55, page 404:

     Besides the practical work done by Surgeon Berry at New Orleans, the culicide was used satisfactorily in another part of the city by Surgeon Blue, and after that some experiments were conducted at the Marine Hospital at New Orleans.

   • 1911 June, “[Town and Village] The Doom of Culex Pipiens”, in The American City, volume IV, New York, N.Y.: […] The Civic Press […], page 288, columns 1–2:

     Pages 3 and 4 dealt with the method of extermination, and appealed to civic pride to reduce this pest to a minimum by killing every mosquito (culex pipiens) seen in the house during the spring, by painting screens with citronella oil, keping^[sic] premises free from stagnant water, closing rain barrels and cisterns, and by having cellars fumigated with vaporized “culicide,” made of equal parts by weight of carbolic acid crystals and gum camphor. Three ounces of culicide is sufficient for every thousand cubic feet of space, and may be volatilized in a simple apparatus over an alcohol lamp placed on some non-inflammable material such as bricks in a tub of water.

Synonyms

• anophelicide
• mosquiticide, mosquitocide

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈli.t͡ʃi.de/
• Rhymes: -itʃide
• Hyphenation: cu‧lì‧ci‧de

Noun

culicide m (plural culicidi)

1. culicid

Anagrams

• uccidile