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adulticide

adulticide noun: a pesticide designed to kill adult insects rather than their larvae.

Noun

adulticide (plural adulticides)

  1. A pesticide designed to kill adult insects rather than their larvae.

Verb

adulticide (third-person singular simple present adulticides, present participle adulticiding, simple past and past participle adulticided)

  1. (transitive) To treat with adulticide.

adulticide meaning in Kannada and Malay

adulticide in Kannada

ಪ್ರೌಢಜೀವಿನಾಶಕ

adulticide in Malay

pesticide designed to kill adult insects
adultisid

Forms of adulticide

Noun
pluraladulticides
Verb
third-person singular presentadulticides
present participleadulticiding
past participleadulticided
pastadulticided

Origin of adulticide

From adult + -icide.

Words formed from adulticide

Questions about adulticide

What does adulticide mean?
Adulticide means a pesticide designed to kill adult insects rather than their larvae.
What is adulticide in Kannada?
Adulticide in Kannada is ಪ್ರೌಢಜೀವಿನಾಶಕ. See Adulticide meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is adulticide?
Adulticide can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of adulticide?
The plural of adulticide is adulticides.

Words near adulticide in the dictionary

  1. adultescent
  2. adultescents
  3. adulthood
  4. adulthoods
  5. adulticidal
  6. adulticide
  7. adulticided
  8. adulticides
  9. adulticiding
  10. adultier
  11. adultiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adulticide (page history and authors); adulticide (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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