insecticide

From French insecticide, as insect +‎ -icide.

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insecticide (countable and uncountable, plural insecticides)

1. A substance used to kill insects.
   • 2009, Handbook of Pesticides: Methods of Pesticide Residues Analysis, →ISBN:

     The dried seed powder of custard apple (Annona squamosa L; family: Annonaceae) has been used as an insecticide in India and many other tropical countries since ancient times.

• insect
• insecticidal

• scienticide

Borrowed, probably from English insecticide.

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insecticide n (plural insecticides or insecticiden)

1. pesticide

• insecticide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

From insecte +‎ -cide.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sɛk.ti.sid/

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insecticide m (plural insecticides)

1. insecticide

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