culiciciden.
/ˈkjuːlɪsɪsʌɪd/ An insecticide for destroying gnats and mosquitoes.
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1900 J. J. Eyre tr. A. Celli Malaria ii. 205 The most efficient culicide is tobacco smoke.
1901 L. O. Howard Mosquitoes 197 The non-spreading qualities of corn-oil, however, as well as its price, remove it from the list of good culicides.
1901 Practitioner Mar. 263 By fumigating the rooms occasionally with some such culicicide as the dried flowers of the chrysanthemum.
1949 M. 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.
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ˌculiciˈcidal adj.
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1900 C. Christy Mosquitos & Malaria vii. 47 Culicicidal Substances... The substances which kill the mosquito itself may be divided into odours, fumes, and gases.
culiˈcidal adj.
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1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Sept. 683/1 The authors made the following classification of culicidal substances: 1. Substances which kill the eggs. [Etc.]
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