pesticide

pest +‎ -i- +‎ -cide.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstɨsaɪd/

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• (General American) enPR: pĕsʹtĭ-sīd', IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstɪ̈ˌsaɪd/
• Hyphenation: pes‧ti‧cide

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pesticide (countable and uncountable, plural pesticides)

1. Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
   • 2001, David McConnell, The Good Earth: Companion Guide, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, →ISBN, page 1.12:

     Too much pesticide was applied and then washed from the fields by rains and surface runoff.

   • 2011, Allan S. Felsot, Pesticides and Health: Myths vs. Realities, page 4:

     Pesticide and fertilizer use has been recorded since ancient times, […]

   • 2013, Meg Stout, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening, →ISBN:

     Diluted neem oil can be effective as a pesticide and can control various fungal diseases, such as powdery mildew, on animals and plants.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pesticide.

• pest
• pesticidal
• fungicide
• germicide
• herbicide

• septicide

Borrowed, probably from English pesticide.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɛs.tiˈsi.də/

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• Hyphenation: pes‧ti‧ci‧de
• Rhymes: -idə

pesticide n (plural pesticides or pesticiden)

1. pesticide

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• pesticide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

From peste +‎ -cide.

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pesticide m (plural pesticides)

1. pesticide

• “pesticide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

pesticide

1. feminine plural of pesticida