herbicide

English

Etymology

From herb +‎ -icide.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜːbɪsaɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ɝbɪsaɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: urbicide (for pronunciations without /h/)

Noun

herbicide (countable and uncountable, plural herbicides)

1. A substance used to kill plants.

Synonyms

• phytocide

Hyponyms

• weedkiller

Derived terms

• antiherbicide
• bioherbicide
• mycoherbicide
• nonherbicide
• proherbicide
• rainbow herbicide

Related terms

• herb
• herbicidal

Translations

substance used to kill plants

• Afrikaans: onkruiddoder
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: гербіцыд m (hjerbicyd)
• Catalan: herbicida m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 除草劑 / 除草剂 (zh) (chúcǎojì)

• Czech: herbicid (cs) m
• Dutch: herbicide (nl) n, onkruidverdelger (nl) m
• Esperanto: herbicido
• Faroese: ókrútstýnari m
• Finnish: kasvimyrkky
• French: herbicide (fr) m
• German: Herbizid (de) n, chemisches Wildkrautbekämpfungsmittel n, chemisches Unkrautvernichtungsmittel n, chemischer Unkrautvernichter m, chemische Keule f (colloquial)
• Greek: ζιζανιοκτόνο (el) n (zizanioktóno)
• Indonesian: herbisida (id)
• Italian: diserbante (it) m, erbicida (it) m
• Japanese: 除草剤 (ja) (じょそうざい, josōzai)
• Korean: 제초제(除草劑) (ko) (jechoje)
• Malay: herbisid (ms), racun herba
• Polish: herbicyd (pl) m
• Portuguese: herbicida (pt) m
• Romanian: erbicid (ro) n
• Russian: гербици́д (ru) m (gerbicíd)
• Scots: yerbicide
• Serbo-Croatian: herbìcīd (sh) m
• Spanish: herbicida (es) m
• Swedish: herbicid (sv) c, ogräsmedel n
• Tagalog: lasonlamon
• Thai: ยาฆ่าหญ้า (yaa-kâa-yâa)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

French

Etymology

From herbe +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɛʁ.bi.sid/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophone: herbicides
• Hyphenation: her‧bi‧cide

Noun

herbicide m (plural herbicides)

1. herbicide

Further reading

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