anticide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Therefore a parathion-treated upland pineapple orchard guarded with anticide throughout the growing seasons showed only negligible pineapple wilt infestation."
- "In addition to the common insecticides generally used, various special preparations are known which may be found useful against different kinds of insects, such as roachicides, anticides, culicides, larvicides, etc."
- "Dusting the seed with an anticide, such as 20% lindane dust at 1 lb. of dust to 80 lb. of seed, will discourage them. Inoculated legume seed should not be mixed with dusted seed as the anticide will kill the bacteria."
Etymology
From ant + -icide.