nematiciden.
/nᵻˈmatᵻsʌɪd/, /nɛˈmatᵻsʌɪd/, /ˈnɛmətᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /nəˈmædəˌsaɪd/, /ˈnɛmədəˌsaɪd/, /ˈnimədəˌsaɪd/ Agriculture and Horticulture.
A substance or preparation used to kill nematodes, esp. those that parasitize plants. Cf. earlier nemacide n., nematocide n.
ΚΠ
1932 N. A. Cobb in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 2 Jan. 75/1 Nematicide, a substance or thing fatal to nemas.
1952 Nature 8 Mar. 420/2 Work has already been published..on the value of chlorphenol as a nematicide.
1960 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 85 54 Trial of various nematicides has shown that treatment with methyl bromide gives a yield almost double that of the control plots.
1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) vii. 212 Another promising nematicide is oxamyl..which can be sprayed; unlike other nematicides it is transported downwards, from the leaf to the roots.
1996 Guardian 8 June (Weekend Suppl.) 51/4 These bananas are grown in conditions no industrial country would tolerate in its own countryside. That means higher inputs of fertilisers, nematicides and fungicides.
Derivatives
nematiˈcidal adj. = nematocidal adj. at nematocide n. Derivatives.
ΚΠ
1950 Helminthol. Abstr. 16 122 Ethylene dibromide is highly nematicidal since 0·1 c.c. will eradicate nematodes from a gallon of soil.
1973 C. A. Anderson in G. Zweig Analyt. Methods for Pesticides VII. x. 253 Dasanit exhibits both insecticidal and nematicidal activity.
1992 Org. Gardening July 50 Scientists have identified compounds in it..that are anti-viral, anti-fungal, antibiotic, nematicidal, molluscidal, insecticidal and allelopathic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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