pesticide
Meaning
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.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pes‧ti‧cide
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpɛstɨsaɪd/
Etymology
From pest + -i- + -cide.
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