Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

slugicide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: slugi-cide
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A substance that kills slugs.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"I have applied slugicides in every variety that the advertisements offer; but the slugs persist."
"Certain slugicides are excellent preventives against slugs and do not hurt the seedlings;"
"They all talk, telling of the Dorothies that did so well last year, the delphiniums the slugs ate, and getting advice thrown in with more Dorothies and cans of slugicide—guaranteed free of arsenic—and packets of seed."
"No experimental work has been conducted in New Zealand to determine the relative value of this compound as compared with other “slugicides,” but the writer has found it useful in checking an outbreak of slugs found to be infesting field cabbages."

Etymology

From slug + -icide.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: slug

Usage

Inflected Forms

slugicides (plural)

Questions

What does slugicide mean?: A substance that kills slugs.
Where does slugicide come from?: From slug + -icide.

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