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culicicide|ˈkjuːlɪsɪsaɪd|
Also culicide |ˈkjuːlɪsaɪd|.
[f. L. culex, culicis gnat: see -cide 1.]
An insecticide for destroying gnats and mosquitoes; also ˌculiciˈcidal, culiˈcidal adjs.
1899Brit. Med. Jrnl. ii. 683/1 The authors made the following classification of culicidal substances: 1. Substances which kill the eggs. [Etc.] 1900C. Christy Mosquitos & Malaria vii. 47 Culicicidal Substances... The substances which kill the mosquito itself may be divided into odours, fumes, and gases. 1900J. J. Eyre tr. Celli's Malaria ii. 205 The most efficient culicide is tobacco smoke. 1901Practitioner Mar. 263 By fumigating the rooms occasionally with some such culicicide as the dried flowers of the chrysanthemum. 1949M. F. Boyd Malariology II. lv. 1203 Carbolic acid crystals and gum camphor, equal parts, were melted together and volatilized by heat. This mixture has been referred to as Mimm's culicide. |