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pesticidal

adj
/(ˌ)pɛstɨˈsaɪd(ə)l/UK/ˌpɛstɪ̈ˈsaɪdl̩/US

Etymology

From pesticide + -al or pest + -icidal.

  1. derived from pestis
  2. borrowed from peste — “pestilence”
  3. formed as pesticide — “pest + -i- + -cide”
  4. formed as pesticidal — “pesticide + -al”

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or effective as a pesticide.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pesticidal. 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