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单词 insecticide
释义

insecticiden.1

/ɪnˈsɛktɪsʌɪd/
Etymology: < Latin insectūm insect n. + -cīda, -cide comb. form1, killer.
a. One who or that which kills insects, an insect-killer; spec. a preparation used for destroying insects.
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the world > life > death > killing > killer of animals > [noun]
slaughterman1389
dog-killer1592
slaughterer1648
buffer1699
pork butcher1763
knacker1812
serpenticide1817
vulpicide1826
piggicide1837
canicide1852
ursicidea1861
birdicide1866
insecticide1866
horse-knacker1937
pigeoneer1944
piscicide1953
1866 Sat. Rev. 24 Mar. 350/2 A rich insecticide is not much, but he is better than that.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) ix. 225 Provided with a good bottle of insecticide.
1887 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 457/2 [The starling's] character as an insecticide..makes it the friend of the agriculturist.
1894 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 5 311 Substances likely to prove useful as insecticides.
b. attributive or as adj. Having the property of killing insects; insecticidal. (In quot. 1865, figurative.)
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1865 Sat. Rev. 25 Nov. 663 Whether Sir George Grey will have recourse to this Parliamentary insecticide powder may be doubted.
1876 Times 4 Oct. The section ‘Insectologie Générale’ embraced..illustrations of the application of insects to ornament, and insecticide preparations of various kinds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

insecticiden.2

Etymology: formed as insecticide n.1 + -cide comb. form2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: inˈsecticide.
The killing of insects.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun]
slaughtera1300
to make larder ofa1330
murdering?a1475
fall1575
butchering1609
ovicide1828
felicide1832
poultrycide1841
piscicide1847
vealing1847
kill1850
slaughterage1854
birdicide1862
apricide1864
insecticide1865
vulpicidism1865
vulpicide1873
serpenticide1882
tauricide1882
vaccicide1887
leporicide1914
culling1938
cull1958
1865 Sat. Rev. 14 Oct. 482/2 The patient believer..is bidden..to abjure the inhuman practice of insecticide.
a1894 Ld. Bowen in Daily News 10 Apr. 6/3 An admirable woman, with perhaps too great a passion for insecticide.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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