anticide

English

Etymology

From ant + -icide.

Noun

anticide (countable and uncountable, plural anticides)

  1. A substance that kills ants.
    • 1959, JCRR General Report, page 64:
      Therefore a parathion-treated upland pineapple orchard guarded with anticide throughout the growing seasons showed only negligible pineapple wilt infestation.
    • 1963, Handbook of Economic Entomology for South India, page 98:
      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.
    • 1973, Queensland Agricultural Journal, page 567:
      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.

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