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pesticide

noun
/ˈpɛstɪsaɪd/UK/ˈpɛstɪˌsaɪd/CA

Etymology

From pest + -i- + -cide.

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

Definitions

  1. Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or…

    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.

    • Too much pesticide was applied and then washed from the fields by rains and surface runoff.
    • Pesticide and fertilizer use has been recorded since ancient times, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pesticide. 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