blatticide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A substance that kills cockroaches.
Example Sentences
- "A new group of blatticides are the insect growth regulators (IGR). These chemicals act like the growth hormones of insects or block development of chitin, the major building block of the cockroach's exoskeleton."
Etymology
From Blatta + -icide.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: Blatta