单词 | adulticide |
释义 | adulticiden. An agent used to kill the adult forms of a pest or parasite. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > insecticide or pesticide acaricide1841 pyrethrum1876 benzene hexachloride1884 systemic1893 alphachloralose1894 pyrethrin1896 hexachlorethane1898 pesticide1933 bomb1944 bug juice1944 adulticide1945 miticide1946 chlordane1947 HCH1947 lindane1949 allethrin1950 Pybuthrin1951 isodrin1953 monosulfiram1953 mirex1962 naled1963 propoxur1964 methiocarb1966 carbofuran1968 aldicarb1969 pirimicarb1970 tickicide1971 methoprene1974 1945 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 60 770 (heading) Use of DDT as an adulticide. 1976 Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 30 440 The principal methods of eradicating malaria in the United States have been drainage, drugs, larvicides, and adulticides. 2002 Cat Fancy May 32/2 Most flea-control products contain adulticides, insect-growth regulators or both. Derivatives aˌdultiˈcidal adj. involving or of the nature of an adulticide. ΚΠ 1945 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 60 772 This unit did not produce an objectionable back pressure as did the simple 4-inch generator and was highly effective in larvicidal as well as adulticidal operations. 2009 J. E. Riviere & M. G. Papich Vet. Pharmacol. & Therapeutics (ed. 9) 1106/2 The reliable efficacy..against 4- and 6-week-old flukes gives rafoxanide an advantage over strictly adulticidal drugs. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1945 |
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