insecticide

English

Etymology

From French insecticide, as insect +‎ -cide.

Noun

insecticide (countable and uncountable, plural insecticides)

1. 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

• insect
• insecticidal

Translations

A substance used to kill insects

• Catalan: insecticida m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殺蟲劑／杀虫剂 (zh) (shāchóngjì), 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)
• Irish: feithidicíd f
• Italian: insetticida (it) f
• Japanese: 殺虫剤 (さっちゅうざい, satchūzai)
• Korean: 살충제 (ko) (salchungje)
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• Latin: insecticida f
• Navajo: chʼosh bee yigání
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: insektmiddel n

  Nynorsk: insektmiddel n

• Portuguese: inseticida (pt) m
• Romanian: insecticid (ro) n
• Russian: инсектици́д (ru) m (insekticíd)
• Spanish: insecticida 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

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French

Etymology

insecte +‎ -cide

Pronunciation

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Noun

insecticide m (plural insecticides)

1. insecticide

References

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