| 单词 | aphicide | 
| 释义 | aphiciden. 1.  A device for spraying insecticide on to plants. Now disused. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > 			[noun]		 > other agricultural implements visgy1777 tomahawk1793 potato-scoop1810 rice stick1832 seed feeder1851 poniard1874 aphicide1883 thinner1943 mist blower1946 dung fork1951 wind-machine1976 1883    Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 23 May p. v/3 		(advt.)	  				Hughes' Aphicide... Enables the operator to apply the Insecticide underneath the leaves. 1902    Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener & Home Farmer 30 Oct. 397/1  				Spraying with Hughes' Aphicide is also beneficial to the bloom when expanding.  2.  A substance used for killing aphids. ΚΠ 1885    Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener & Home Farmer 13 Nov. 432/2  				The innocent often suffer for the guilty, and in using either of these valuable aphicides we doubtless often slay one [sc. an insect] that is working hard for us. 1909    F. V. Theobald Insect & Other Allied Pests 254  				The end of April..would be the best time to wash with any good aphicide. 1961    Agriculture 67 527  				Malathion, a very safe, general-purpose contact aphicide, has largely supplanted the much cheaper but more poisonous TEPP. 2001    Farmers Guardian 17 Aug. 16/4  				Careful monitoring will be necessary to ensure correct aphicide timing. Derivatives  ˌaphiˈcidal adj. destructive to aphids; of or relating to the killing of aphids. ΚΠ 1908    Queensland Agric. Jrnl. 21 277  				Fenwick and Co., Brisbane, stocked a convenient extract of tobacco named Roseleaf, wherewith readily to make the aphicidal ‘Tea’. 1955    Ann. Appl. Biol. 43 594 		(heading)	  				The aphicidal action of some systemic insecticides applied to seeds. 1970    Alexandria Jrnl. Agric. Res. 18 131/1  				It was planned to compare the aphicidal efficiency of the safer insecticides. 2003    R. N. Strange Introd. Plant Pathol. v. 145  				Transgenic plants were less colonized by aphids and were more aphicidal than the wild type. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  | 
	
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