English Explanatory Dictionary

adulticide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A pesticide designed to kill adult insects rather than their larvae.

verb

To treat with adulticide.

Word forms

adulticide adulticides adulticiding adulticided

Etymology

From adult + -icide.

Derived words

adulticidal

Previous

Next

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.

Back to search All on A Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary