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amphibicide

noun

Etymology

From amphibian + -i- + -cide.

  1. derived from ἀμφίβιος
  2. learned borrowing from amphibius
  3. formed as amphibicide — “amphibian + -i- + -cide”

Definitions

  1. A substance used to kill amphibians.

    • The toxicant would need to be relabeled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for use as a selective amphibicide in static culture ponds before it could become available for use as described here.

  2. The killing of an amphibian.

    • Stepping gingerly so as to avoid any inadvertent amphibicide, I eventually found myself at the pond's center, the water now above waist level.
    • 'The wee girls haven't caught a frog yet, so this talk of amphibicide is all exaggeration.'

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for amphibicide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA